"While visiting another village with her father, Pocahontas hears three warriors bragging. Their story of a glorious victory over invisible warriors makes her suspicious. It isn't long before has finds out what's really going on. True to her nickname, Little Mischief decides to have some fun and shows there can be no glory in a lie."--P. [4] of cover.

After running Jamestown under martial law from 1610-1616, the Virginia Company turned toward representative government in an effort to provide settlers with more control over their own affairs and more incentive to invest further in the colony. From late July 1619 on, propertied white colonists became accustomed to freedoms that would have been unthinkable in England. But those very freedoms also permitted the wholesale and largely unchecked exploitation...

"Following France's defeat in the Franco-Prussian War in 1870-71, French patriots feared that their country was in danger of becoming a second-rate power in Europe. Decreasing birth rates had largely slowed French population growth, and the country's population was not keeping pace with that of its European neighbors. To regain its standing in the European world, France set its sights on building a vast colonial empire while simultaneously developing...