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7041151248PocahontasA Powhatan woman (the daughter of Powhatan) who befriended the English at Jamestown and is said to have saved Captain John Smith's life0
7041151249PowhatanIndian chief and founder of the Powhatan confederacy of tribes in eastern Virginia; father of Pocahontas1
7041151250John RolfeCredited with the first successful cultivation of tobacco as an export crop in the Colony of Virginia and is known as the husband of Pocahontas2
7041151251Lord BaltimoreGeorge Calvert was the first person to dream of a colony in America where Catholics and Protestants could prosper together3
7041151252Walter RaleighEnglish courtier (a favorite of Elizabeth I) who tried to colonize Virginia4
7041151253James OglethorpeThe founder of the colony of Georgia.5
7041151254Oliver CromwellEnglish general and statesman who led the parliamentary army in the English Civil War6
7041151255John SmithEnglish explorer who helped found the colony at Jamestown, Virginia; was said to have been saved by Pocahontas7
7041151256John WesleyEnglish clergyman and founder of Methodism8
7041151257Francis DrakeEnglish explorer and admiral who was the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe and who helped to defeat the Spanish Armada9
7041151258William PennEnglishman and Quaker who founded the colony of Pennsylvania10
7041151259Elizabeth IQueen of England from 1558 to 160311
7041151260Philip IIKing of Spain and Portugal and husband of Mary I; he supported the Counter Reformation and sent the Spanish Armada to invade England12
7041151261James IThe first Stuart to be king of England and Ireland from 1603 to 162513
7041151262Charles ISon of James I who was King of England and Scotland and Ireland; was deposed and executed by Oliver Cromwell14
7041151263Charles IIKing of England and Scotland and Ireland during the Restoration15
7056921257Lord De la WarrAn Englishman who came to America in 1610. He brought the Indians in the Jamestown area a declaration of war from the Virginia Company. This began the four year Anglo-Powhatan War. He brought in brutal "Irish tactics" to use in battle.16
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