Using his familial connections to the English rules Prince Solms-Braunfels courted the favor of King George IV in the formation of the new "Germany in the West". Sighting English economic interests in the New Spain regions of California and Mexico would always be threatened by the westward expansions of the United States, the Prince argued that a German colony in Texas with help to contain the USA. To the end of establishing a New Germany in the west, the Adelsverein promoted migration, allowing them to hide the infiltration of their loyalists. The Adelsverein purchased more than three million acres around the Llano and Colorado Rivers, and arranged large land grants and development rites from the fledgling Mexican government. Under the direction of Prince Solms-Braunfels, the Adelsverein established a series of forts at Nassau, New Braunfels and Carlshafen, founded the communities of Fredrieksburg, Berghein, and Boerne. The Mexican government was eager to populate the region as a check to the infiltration of the Comanche, who had been gaining strength and often raided Mexican communities for horses and mules. The Adelsverein arranged for the Baron Ottfried Hans von Meusebach to negotiate with the Comanche Chief Santana to gain settlement rites from the native tribes. The Baron was very well received and given the name "El Sol Colorado" for his long red beard. These good relation established early in the history of the German settlement would bare great fruit latter. With the major legal challenges to settlement handled by The Adelsverein, the migration of Germans proceeded quite smoothly.		Beyond the logistical, challenges to the settlement came mainly from the United States of America, who had its own designs on the region and was hoping to exploit the territories they had gained from the Louisiana Purchase. The state of Missouri had been organized in 1821 and a trade route with the newly formed Mexican government in New Mexico, by the name of the Santa Fe road, had been opened to promote trade between the two new states. While initially beneficial to the region the USA soon used it to promote expansion and infiltration into the Mexican territories. Additionally, the Indian Removal Act of 1830 began the government organized forced relocation of Eastern native tribes to the West side of the Mississippi river. This tactic was intended to destabilize Mexican settlement and native relations, foment unrest amongst native tribes, and serve as a pretext for the military intervention and eventual occupation by the USA. Unrest among the Osage to the northwest delivered the newly arriving tribes (the Delaware, Fox, Sauk and Cherokee) into protective cooperation with Comanche and by association the German settlers. The friendly relation between the German settlers and the Comanche had flourished and active trade, including arms, between the parties was promoted by both The Adelsverein and the English.