In his youth, this man served as a soldier in the Netherlands, where he met the religious exiles who would become the Pilgrims.
In his youth, this man served as a soldier in the Netherlands, where he met the religious exiles who would become the Pilgrims. He learned the language of several Native American tribes and led expeditions against them as military leader of the Plymouth colony, served as its treasurer from 1644-49, and joined John Alden in establishing the community of Duxbury, where he remained until his death. FTP, who was this colonist whose legendary proposal to Priscilla Mullins was described in a poem by Longfellow?
In his youth, this man served as a soldier in the Netherlands, where he met the religious exiles who would become the Pilgrims.
Myles Standish