MacGregor, Gregor

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  • Financial services Business promotion, projection, etc, activities

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Gregor MacGregor, 1786-1845, was an adventurer in South and Central America from 1811. In 1820 he landed at Honduras and subsequently was granted eight million acres which he labeled Poyais. In London he arranged fraudulently a bond issue in the name of the new country and subsequently moved to France where he continued to sell Poyais assets. Sometime knighted by King of Portugal

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