Gregor MacGregor
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Gregor MacGregor 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 th
1804 portrait
A romanticised depiction of a MacGregor clansman, by R R McIan
Francisco de Miranda, whom MacGregor possibly met in London
Josefa Lovera MacGregor, painted by Charles Lees in 1821
Mosquito Coast
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The Mosquito Coast is an area along the coast of eastern Nicaragua and southeastern Honduras. It was named after the local Miskito nation and was long dominated by British interests and known as the M
Gregor MacGregor
…abandoning the 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 appointed him Cazique of Poyais, which he described as a developed colony with a community of British settlers. When the…
The Coco River in the northern limit of the Mosquito Coast
Fort Wellington on the Black River (Engraving showing Fort Wellington (Poyais) on the Black River, Mosquito Coast, mid 1840s.)
Dwellings in Bluefields in 1845