In Disney’s cartoon version of the story (and elsewhere), Pocahontas is shown to be involved romantically with an Englishman called Captain John Smith. He was real, but not her boyfriend.

She retains the chaste, high-necked Jacobian costume of the engraving (which may have covered the real ... John Smith. Most historians doubt that a full-fledged romance ever existed between ...

The plot goes that Pocahontas, the beautiful daughter of Chief Powhatan, saves English adventurer John Smith from execution when British relations with the "savages" in the New World turned sour.

A Walt Disney animated film series based on a real historic ... American woman Pocahontas, and features a fictionalized account of her encounter with Englishman John Smith and the settlers that ...