In December 1607, six months after the founding of the English settlement of Jamestown, Capt. John Smith was captured by a relative of Powhatan, the leader of a chiefdom based in what is now eastern ...
During the summer and fall of 1607, illness had wiped out approximately half of the original Jamestown settlers. During this ...
From suspicion, to siege, to collaboration, to all out war - in this episode we uncover the complex reality of the Jamestown colonists ... How did the Powhatan view their dynamic with the British ...