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Our Town.(Jamestown)(Biography)
Somewhere under the south aisle of St. Sepulchre's Church in London lie the remains of Captain John Smith, who died in 1631, at the age of fifty-one. On a brass plaque, his epitaph reads:
Here lyes one conquered that hath conquered Kings., Subdu'd large Territories, and done things, Which to the World impossible would seem,, But that the Truth is held in more esteem.
In other words: believe it or not, he wasn't a liar.
Smith's conquests are, to say the least, hard to credit. In 1630, he published "The True Travels, Adventures, and Observations of Captaine John Smith, in Europe, Asia, Affrica, and America," in which a discerning reader will learn ...
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