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John Rolfe, född omkr. 1585 i Heacham, Norfolk, död 1622 i Virginia, engelsk bosättare i Virginia, USA. Han upptäckte att förutsättningarna att odla tobak var mycket goda i Virginia. Samtidigt hade tobaken blivit mycket populär i hans hemland England. John Rolfe är också känd för att ha varit gift med Pocahontas.
7 lug 2024 · John Rolfe est l'un des protagonistes du long-métrage d'animation Pocahontas : Un monde nouveau, sorti en 1998, suite, sortie directement en vidéo, de Pocahontas : Une légende indienne. Basé sur un personnage historique du XVIIème siècle, c'est un envoyé diplomatique qui amène Pocahontas à Londres afin qu'elle puisse défendre son peuple face au roi Jacques. Plusieurs années après ...
John Rolfe (circa 1585 – 1622) was een Brits ontdekkingsreiziger en een van de eerste Britse kolonisten in Noord-Amerika. Hij is vooral bekend als de echtgenoot van de indiaanse vrouw Pocahontas en het feit dat hij erin slaagde tabak te verbouwen op de plantages van de Britse kolonie in Virginia, zodat dit als exportproduct kon worden gebruikt.
John Rolfe (l. 1585-1622 CE) was an English merchant and colonist of Jamestown best known as the husband of Pocahontas (l. c. 1596-1617 CE). He is also known, however, for his successful cultivation of tobacco in Virginia which established the crop as the most lucrative export of the early English colonies of North America. More about: John Rolfe
It was also during this time she met and married Englishman John Rolfe. As this union provided a temporary peace with the Virginia Indians, Virginia’s economy was sharply transformed by the introduction in 1612 of new strains of mild tobacco cultivated by Rolfe.
In 1614, Rolfe married Pocahontas, daughter of the local Native American leader Chief Powhatan. Her father approved of his daughter's marriage to the Englishman. Chief Powhatan gave the newlyweds property that included a small brick house just across the James River from Jamestown, which was used as a home or cottage by Pocahontas and John Rolfe when they were first married.
13 apr 2022 · John Rolfe is the deuteragonist of Disney's 1998 animated feature film Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World, the sequel to the 1995 film Pocahontas. John Rolfe is a dashing young English diplomat in service to King James. He is sent to Jamestown with the task of bringing Chief Powhatan back to England for negotiations in order to prevent a war between the natives and the English. His ...
