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- Gregor_MacGregor abstract "General Gregor MacGregor (24 December 1786 – 4 December 1845) was a Scottish soldier, adventurer and confidence trickster who from 1821 to 1837 attempted to draw British and French investors and settlers to "Poyais", a fictional Central American territory he claimed to rule as "Cazique". Hundreds invested their savings in supposed Poyaisian government bonds and land certificates, while about 270 emigrated to MacGregor's invented country in 1822–23 to find only an untouched jungle; over half of them died. MacGregor's Poyais scheme has been called "the most audacious fraud in history" and "the greatest confidence trick of all time".Born into the Clan Gregor in Stirlingshire, MacGregor purchased a commission in the British Army in 1803 and from 1809 to 1810 served in the Peninsular War in Portugal and Spain, latterly as a major seconded to the Portuguese Army. He left the British service in 1810 and two years later joined the republican side in the Venezuelan War of Independence, initially as a colonel. He quickly became a general and over the next four years operated against the Spanish on behalf of both Venezuela and its neighbour New Granada; his successes included a difficult month-long fighting retreat through northern Venezuela to Barcelona in 1816. Under a mandate from Latin American revolutionary agents to conquer Florida from the Spanish, MacGregor captured Amelia Island in 1817 and there proclaimed a short-lived "Republic of the Floridas". He returned home to recruit British officers and men, then oversaw two calamitous operations in New Granada during 1819 that each ended with him abandoning his troops.On his permanent return to Britain in 1821, MacGregor claimed that King George Frederic Augustus of the Mosquito Coast in the Gulf of Honduras had created him Cazique of Poyais, which he described as being around the Black River (now the Río Sico). Poyais was supposedly a developed colony with an existing community of British settlers, an army and a democratic government. Amid the booming market in Latin American government bonds as the new republics emerged, MacGregor attracted substantial investment for Poyais and hundreds of colonists, mostly his fellow Scotsmen. On reaching the Mosquito Coast the duped emigrants, cut off from civilisation, soon began to die from tropical diseases. Officials from British Honduras found and evacuated them in May 1823; 180 perished, including those who died after the rescue. Fewer than 50 returned to Britain.When the British press reported on MacGregor's deception following the survivors' return in late 1823, some of them leaped to his defence, insisting that the general had been let down by those he had put in charge of the emigration party. MacGregor left for France and attempted a variation on the scheme there, but French officials became suspicious and arrested him in December 1825. A French court tried MacGregor and three others for fraud in 1826, but convicted only one of his associates—acquitted, MacGregor returned to London, where he attempted lesser Poyais schemes over the next decade, latterly competing with rival "Poyaisian offices" that tried to copy him. In 1838 he moved to Venezuela, where he was welcomed back as a hero, made a Venezuelan citizen and given a pension with the rank of general of division in the Venezuelan Army. He died in Caracas in 1845, aged 58, and was buried with full military honours in Caracas Cathedral.".
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- Gregor_MacGregor battle Peninsular_War.
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- Gregor_MacGregor birthDate "1786-12-24".
- Gregor_MacGregor birthPlace Stirlingshire.
- Gregor_MacGregor birthYear "1786".
- Gregor_MacGregor deathDate "1845-12-04".
- Gregor_MacGregor deathPlace Caracas.
- Gregor_MacGregor deathPlace Venezuela.
- Gregor_MacGregor deathYear "1845".
- Gregor_MacGregor militaryBranch British_Army.
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- Gregor_MacGregor militaryBranch Venezuelan_Army.
- Gregor_MacGregor occupation Amelia_Island_affair.
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- Gregor_MacGregor restingPlace Caracas.
- Gregor_MacGregor restingPlace Venezuela.
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