John Whitehead Peard

At one point of his life he lived in Penquite, a manor house in rural Cornwall, near Golant on the River Fowey.

[2] The Sacramento Daily Union wrote, "Peard accompanied Garibaldi through several of his campaigns, and was warmly thanked for his services by the great Italian.

He wrote some letters on the campaign and excited some indignation by his description of the way in which he "potted" the Austrian Generals and other officers with his rifle.

[3] After the landing in Naples on 15 October 1860 of the volunteers of the British Legion he was their commanding officer.

[4] His reputation among the Britons under his command, however, suffered, with one describing him as a "bloodthirsty man, who, unable to gratify his penchant for murders in his own country, comes out here and gloats over his victims".