Prospero Bernardi was the only Italian known to have fought with the Texans at the battle of San Jacinto. Born in Italy in 1794, he came to Texas in early 1836. On February 13 he enlisted with the New Orleans Volunteers. His land grant record states that he was discharged at Galveston a year later. For his service he later received two land grants— one in San Patricio County, the other in present Somervell County.