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
Republic of the Floridas
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The Republic of the Floridas, also called Republic of Floridas, was a short-lived attempt, from June to December 1817, to establish an independent Florida. It was led by Gregor MacGregor, a Scottish m
Gregor MacGregor
…in 1816. He captured Amelia Island in 1817 under a mandate from revolutionary agents to conquer Spanish Florida, 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 him abandoning the British volunteer troops under his…
Gregor MacGregor