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Gregor MacGregor

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Gregor MacGregor

General Gregor MacGregor was a Scottish soldier, adventurer and confidence trickster who attempted from 1821 to 1837 to draw British and French investors and settlers to "Poyais", a fictional Central American territory that he claimed to rule as "Cazique". Hundreds invested their savings in supposed Poyaisian government bonds and land certificates, while about 250 emigrated to MacGregor's invented country in 1822–23 to find only an untouched jungle; more than half of them died. MacGregor's Poyais scheme has been called one of the most brazen confidence tricks in history.
  • Personal 

  • Family and childhood 

  • British Army 

  • Edinburgh to Caracas 

  • Venezuela, under Miranda 

  • New Granada; defence of Cartagena 

  • Venezuela, under Bolívar 

  • Florida republic; Amelia Island affair 

  • Porto Bello 

  • Rio de la Hacha 

  • Cazique of Poyais 

  • Land of opportunity 

  • Eager settlers 

  • Disappointment 

  • Poyais scheme in France 

  • 1826 acquittal of fraud 

  • Return to Britain; lesser Poyais schemes 

  • Return to Venezuela and death 

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