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Poyaisian Bond signed by Gregor Mac Gregor - Fradulant 500 Bond - Great History For Sale
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Poyaisian Bond signed by Gregor Mac Gregor - Fradulant 500 Bond - Great History :
$1310.00
500 Bond signed by Gregor Mac Gregor. General Gregor MacGregor (24 December 1786 " 4 December 1845) 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. From the Clan Gregor, MacGregor was an officer in the British Army from 1803 to 1810; he served in the Peninsular War. He joined the republican side in the Venezuelan War of Independence in 1812, 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 in 1816. He captured Amelia Island in 1817 under a mandate from revolutionary agents to conquer Florida from the Spanish, and there proclaimed a short-lived "Republic of the Floridas". He then oversaw two calamitous operations in New Granada during 1819 that each ended with his abandoning British volunteer troops under his command. On his 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 a developed colony with a community Item ordered may not be exact piece shown. All original and authentic.
Poyaisian Bond signed by Gregor Mac Gregor - Fradulant 500 Bond - Great History $1310.00
Poyaisian Bond signed by Gregor Mac Gregor - Fradulant 500 Bond - Great History $1310.00
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