John Smith Leadership Qualities

John Smith lived a life that we could only experience by watching a movie. After his father died Smith packed up and left jump starting his life of heroism, and chaos. He experienced a sea-battle and being captured countless times. Even though he was the youngest amongst the other leaders it wasn’t his age that made him different it was his experience, “John Smith was also the most travelled, the most experienced, and the most educated – at least in the practical training more relevant to the conquest of a wilderness than a degree from Oxford or Cambridge”
His militaristic training was probably one of the main reasons he was prepared for the many challenges the “Wilde Salvages” threw at him. As Smith puts it, “The Warres in Europe, Asia …show more content…
The Indians had seen what Smith was capable of when he bested the Chief of Paspahegh …show more content…
The chief’s daughter, Pocahontas who had, “got his head in her armes, and laid her owne upon his to save him from death.” Pocahontas was another reason there was peace among the colonists and the Indians. She was also a weakness for Smith, “Somewhat offsetting Smith’s militant approach to chiefs and tribesmen was his affection for Pocahontas.” She visited Smith often at Jamestown, but it wasn’t her crush on Smith that was important to the colony it was her willingness to warn him of danger from her own father. “In fact, Pocahontas’ last meeting with Smith in Virginia took place in Powhatan’s village where Smith had gone to parley with the chief; ‘in that datk night [she] came through the irksome woods, and told our Captaine the great cheare should be sent us by and by: but Powhatan would after come kill us all . . .” Smith’s interesting experience with his lady saviors led him to build a relationship with the chiefs daughter, which ultimately helped him survive countless plots by Powhatan, as the author states “The Colony’s survival, and Smith’s owed almost as much to Pocahontas’ friendship as to the president’s