How Texas Almost Became German

History Unplugged Podcast

History Unplugged

Society & Culture, History

4.2 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2017

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Like much of the United States, Texas has a large popular whose ancestors originated in Germany. But Texas takes it a step further. In the 1840s a massive immigration of Germans arrived when the Adelsverein (The Society for the Protection of German Immigrants in Texas) organized at Biebrich on the Rhine near Mainz. It assisted thousands in coming to Central Texas and establishing such settlements as New Braunfels and Fredericksburg. So many arrived that Texas practically became an outpost of Germany. TO HELP OUT THE SHOW Leave an honest review on iTunes. Your ratings and reviews really help and I read each one. Subscribe on iTunes or Stitcher

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0:00.0	The History of North America podcast is a sweeping historical saga of the United States,
0:09.4	Canada, and Mexico from their deep origins to our present epoch.
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0:35.2	They waged war, forged peace, and altered the fates of billions of people, and yet they
0:39.9	were just as human, just as flawed as you and me.
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1:01.0	podcast platform.
1:04.9	Welcome to the History Unplugged Podcast.
1:07.9	The unscripted show that celebrates unsung heroes, myth busts historical lies, and rediscoveres
1:14.3	the forgotten stories that changed our world.
1:18.0	I'm your host, Scott Rank.
1:25.3	Hello, welcome to one of these in-between episodes where I answer any question that you
1:28.7	have for me about history.
1:31.2	This question is, can you tell me about how Texas almost became a German state?
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