“He was very likely a bad ass. He was a professional soldier.”
Did you also know that he is a hero up in Canada???
https://www.google.com/search?q=John+Graves+Simcoe&oq=John+Graves+Simcoe&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l5.5632j0j8&sourceid=chrome&es_sm=93&ie=UTF-8
First Monday in August in Ontario is a holiday named after him - Simcoe Day.
There’s a Lake Simcoe in Ontario.