adelsverein in A Sentence

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    The Adelsverein was dead and so was the idea of a Germany in Texas.

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    By then the Adelsverein's official representative, Prince Carl of Solms-Braunfels, had been in Texas for nearly five months.

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    When he was finally well enough to travel to Galveston, he instructed the Adelsverein's agent there to send another report to Germany.

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    Much shorter, too, because not long after he arrived, the Adelsverein sent word that it was bankrupt and that the settlers were on their own.

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    Only this time to German newspapers, not to the Adelsverein, in the hope that the newspapers would make the German public aware of the settlers' plight.

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    The Adelsverein never bothered to explain how it was going to pay for all of this, but it didn't matter because few people bothered to ask.

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    In April, he went to Nassau Farm, the Adelsverein's plantation east of New Braunfels, to see if they would grown any crops that could feed the settlers.

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    During these difficult months Meusebach had sent one report after another to the Adelsverein in Germany describing the situation and begging for money to keep the settlers from starving.

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    It's a mystery why the Adelsverein didn't just cancel the ships that hadn't already departed for Texas- perhaps it didn't want to refund the money the settlers had already paid in.

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    Nassau Farm was intended as a headquarters for members of the Adelsverein when they visited Texas and also as a possible stopping point for German settlers on their way to their own land.

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    But it was too late- six days before he finalized arrangements with the owner of Indian Point to land the Society's settlers there, the first Adelsverein ship arrived in Galveston on November 23, 1844.

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    In the summer of 1846, when the newspapers began describing in vivid detail how the Adelsverein had left the stranded settlers to starve in Texas, the Society coughed up another $60,000 and sent it to Meusebach.

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    Within a month of running its first newspaper ads, the Adelsverein signed up more than 10,000 Germans to go to Texas, and no sooner were they signed up than the Society began chartering ships to take them there.

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    In June 1843, the Adelsverein reorganized itself into a stock company, and the nobles ponied up $80,000(about $2 million today) in capital to get it started- a sum far less than both Leiningen and Boos-Waldeck had said would be needed.

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    Prince Carl forwarded this information to the Adelsverein in Germany, along with his recommendation that the Society look for a better piece of land, one outside of Indian territory, more suitable for farming, and closer to the port of Galveston.

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