Sir Gregor Macgregor: Cazique Of Poyais
There are a lot of things out there to be afraid of, but this person is not afraid of anything and is known to be a con artist in history. The most audacious fraud, Sir Gregor MacGregor. Sir MacGregor is known to be an adventurer, and a confident trickster. MacGregor known to style himself the Cazique of Poyais or the Prince of Poyais indicating his extreme self confident and narcissism. MacGregor was a very selfish swindler who returned nothing to any of his investors. It is one thing to convince all investor to invest money in a company that does not produce anything. It takes real skill to convince investor to invest in a country that does not exist.
1) MacGregor was born on Christmas Eve, December 24th, 1786 in Edinburgh. He died on December …show more content…
For the most of MacGregor's early years in Latin America, he bounced around in various military roles. He was a Royal Navy in 1803 at the age of sixteen and served in both the Spanish and Portuguese armies. He was a Colonel serving in the army of the General of Venezuela in 1811 fighting for independence from Spain under Simon Bolivar who had fought in Florida in 1817. He was generally well regarded as a soldier and a military leader and appeared to be successful. MacGregor fame as a military man and his exploits were known to the British public. Fame did not guarantee wealth and coming from a family with more history than money was to lure riches to MacGregor. He then returned to Great Britain, with news about Poyais, a new nation in Americas which he was tapped to …show more content…
What MacGregor did was very cunning on the Poyais scheme. Probably one of the most brazen confident tricks in history. MacGregor had invented an entire country who just walked away with millions. But investing into something like that do have its pros and cons. Pros of investing into something new can bring a new life. The cons about it there is not guaranteed return and suffer. Loaning money on losing term to the biggest debtor in history that has practically no mathematical chance of ever repaying when all facts out there for everyone to see is a bigger insult to
1) MacGregor was born on Christmas Eve, December 24th, 1786 in Edinburgh. He died on December …show more content…
For the most of MacGregor's early years in Latin America, he bounced around in various military roles. He was a Royal Navy in 1803 at the age of sixteen and served in both the Spanish and Portuguese armies. He was a Colonel serving in the army of the General of Venezuela in 1811 fighting for independence from Spain under Simon Bolivar who had fought in Florida in 1817. He was generally well regarded as a soldier and a military leader and appeared to be successful. MacGregor fame as a military man and his exploits were known to the British public. Fame did not guarantee wealth and coming from a family with more history than money was to lure riches to MacGregor. He then returned to Great Britain, with news about Poyais, a new nation in Americas which he was tapped to …show more content…
What MacGregor did was very cunning on the Poyais scheme. Probably one of the most brazen confident tricks in history. MacGregor had invented an entire country who just walked away with millions. But investing into something like that do have its pros and cons. Pros of investing into something new can bring a new life. The cons about it there is not guaranteed return and suffer. Loaning money on losing term to the biggest debtor in history that has practically no mathematical chance of ever repaying when all facts out there for everyone to see is a bigger insult to