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A Prussian lens on South Tejas
On this day in 1860, Adolphus Glaevecke, a long-term observer of life on the Texas-Mexico border, gave the governor of Texas an account of events connected with the so-called Cortina Wars. Glaevecke, a native of Rostock, Prussia, had come to Texas with three of his brothers in 1836. Nearly all subsequent historians have used his account of the actions of Juan N. Cortina, whose rebellion against border Anglo-Texans is legendary.
- Links to Related Handbook of Texas Online Articles
- GLAEVECKE, ADOLPHUS
- CORTINA, JUAN NEPOMUCENO
- Other Texas Day by Day Articles for This Date
- Church organized in Swedish community (1897)
- Prussian mapmaker retires from General Land Office (1899)
- Historian Joe B. Frantz born (1917)
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