Aftermath
After the failed attack, at least 7 of those involved, Gustav Körner, George Bunsen, Gustav Bunsen, Henry Abend, Theodore Engleman, and Adolph Berchelman fled to Belleville, Illinois. Gustav Koerner was later Lt. Governor of Illinois. Gustav Bunsen died serving Sam Houston in Texas, and George Bunsen became superintendent of schools in St. Clair County, Illinois.
This group of 1830s revolutionaries, thus called in German the Dreißiger, were predecessors of the "Forty-Eighters", which had to emigrate following the 1848 revolutions.
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