Poyais -- a paradise by any other name would smell as sweet. Nestled on the Atlantic side of Central America, the country possessed a small but thriving colonial community (complete with theater) plus ...

Some months ago Sir Gregor MacGregor, a person of whom we do not choose to say all that we think, induced a number of persons, chiefly Scotch, to emigrate to a settlement which he gave them to ...

If you thought corruption scandals belonged to contemporary criminals and governments, this story is for you. Around the 1820s, Scottish General Gregor MacGregor, an army officer who served with ...

Gregor MacGregor scammed Scots into paying to relocate to a bogus dreamland named Poyais near Honduras. Thomas Strangeways/Library of Co In September 1822, about 250 largely impoverished Scots ...

Author, journalist and historian Sinclair (The Pound: A Biography, etc.) turns in this enthralling history to the outrageous and tragic story of Poyais, a South American nation that, as the subtitle ...

Gregor MacGregor, equal parts swindler and sociopath, promised farmers a paradise where three corn crops could be grown in a single year. One agriculture fraud to rule them all. In an 8-million-acre ...

Gregor MacGregor sold the dream of paradise in his own country, Poyais, for a small fortune but the eager colonists soon discovered they had entered an earthly hell of yellow fever, malaria and death ...

Gregor MacGregor (born 1786) served in the British Army, rising to the rank of major before being forced to resign in 1811 as the result of a fight with a superior officer. After the death of his wife ...