Pocahontas 'Visit To Jamestown'

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conducted to jamestown.Life was hard for the people of jamestown.When colonists ran out of food they fed on horses and other beasts.Within a few weeks the fort had been attacked by something as powerful as several hundred warriors from a group in the area.The water they drank contained arsenic.Their men were destroyed with many diseases such as swelling,fluxes,burning fevers,and not a disease but a big part of what destroyed them was wars.

Pocahontas had a bond with John Smith.Pocahontas hazarded her head being smashed in to save John Smith.Pocahontas even prevailed with her father to have John Smith safely

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