General J. D'Evereux and General Leslie Combs

John D’Evereux and Leslie Combs were both political and military mavericks. D’Evereux, whom Auguste Edouart refers to in this picture as being “blind,” came to the United States not long after he had been pardoned for his role in the Irish Rebellion of 1798 against British rule. In 1817, he began to organize Irish and British recruits for Simón Bolívar’s military efforts to liberate Venezuela and other parts of Latin America from Spain and was subsequently incarcerated in Venice for a brief period of time. Leslie Combs, shown “dressed in Kentucky hunting shirt as Gen. Harrison was at battle of Tippecanoe,” was a young man in 1811 when he carried important information through dangerous territory to William Henry Harrison as he fought a confederation of Native Americans. In Harrison’s 1840 presidential race, he, with the support of Combs, campaigned in part on his success in that famous battle.