Poyais: The Phantom Empire that Helped Gregor MacGregor Con a Nation
“That any person could be induced again to join him in his desperate projects,would be to conceive a degree of madness and folly of which human nature, however fallen, is incapable.”
-Michael Rafter
In the early 1820s, a Scottish conman named Gregor MacGregor pul…
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