The German element of the United States refers to all immigrants and their offspring from Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and other German-speaking areas of Europe. Today, Wisconsin represents one of our "Germanest" states, with no less that 55 percent of its population claiming German origin. During the great auswanderung of Germans to America of the mid-nineteenth century, hundreds of ...
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Manufacturer: Heritage BooksWritten By: Don Heinrich Tolzmann
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While it is widely known that German soldiers from Hesse (Hessians) fought on the British side of the American Revolution, it is less well known that among our French allied forces were a number of German units. For example, more than half of the 300 men recruited in France by Lafayette in 1779 hailed from Alsace-Lorraine and southwestern Germany. According to one authority, it is possible ...
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As a result of the nineteenth-century German emigration to the United States, St. Louis, Missouri, along with Milwaukee and Cincinnati, would become constituted as the great "German triangle" of the Midwest. In 1893, Ernst Kargau, a reporter and editor for various German-American newspapers, published a German language commemorative history of St. Louis' German population entitled St. Louis in ...
Manufacturer: Clearfield CoWritten By: Don Heinrich Tolzmann
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