Gregor MacGregor

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Gregor MacGregor

Scottish con man

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The Craziest Scam? Gregor MacGregor Creates His Own Country
…by the country’s dashing governor, Gregor MacGregor, were in fact nothing but a desolate wilderness. Leading to financial ruin and more than 150 deaths, the colonization attempt revealed Poyais to be more con than country, and MacGregor, the Scotsman behind the scheme, to be an equally cunning fraud. How had…
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…by the country’s dashing governor, Gregor MacGregor, were in fact nothing but a desolate wilderness. Leading to financial ruin and more than 150 deaths, the colonization attempt revealed Poyais to be more con than country, and MacGregor, the Scotsman behind the scheme, to be an equally cunning fraud. How had…
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