Gregor MacGregor

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At a glance

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Domain

History and politics

Knowledge cost

6

Influence

11

Resistance

5

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What Wikipedia says

Gregor MacGregor (24 December 1786 – 4 December 1845) was a Scottish soldier, adventurer and con man 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".

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Image: en:Samuel William Reynolds (1773–1835), after Simon Jacques Rochard (1788–1872), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.