Captain John Smith: The Man Behind Jamestown and Pocahontas

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Mercenary. Shipwreck survivor. Pirate. Beheaded three men in single combat on the same afternoon. Enslaved and shipped to Constantinople as a gift. Killed his own master with a threshing bat and escaped on horseback across the Russian Steppes. All of that happened before he arrived at Jamestown, aged 27. In this episode, Johnny Vaughan and Gavin "The Woodman" Woods take on Captain John Smith , a man with a CV so absurd that historians spent centuries assuming he'd invented most of it, only for modern research to keep confirming he really was where he said he was. What You'll Hear in This Episode: ⚔️ The triple beheading – challenged to single combat by a bored Ottoman officer at the Siege…