This week we're taking a look at Gregor MacGregor a distinguished military officer, and scam artist with no qualms about putting many lives at risk for his financial gain. 

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Sources:

The conman who pulled off history's most audacious scam by Maria Konnikova: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20160127-the-conman-who-pulled-off-historys-most-audacious-scam

The Fraud of the Prince of Poyais on the London Stock Exchange by Bryan Taylor: https://globalfinancialdata.com/the-fraud-of-the-prince-of-poyais-on-london-stock-exchange

The Untold Truth About Poyais: A Dead Land Sold as a Mystical Paradise by Lioness Rue: https://medium.com/lessons-from-history/the-untold-truth-about-poyais-a-dead-land-sold-as-a-mystical-paradise-bf6719715229

Gregor MacGregor, Prince of Poyais by Jessica Brain: https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofScotland/Gregor-MacGregor-Prince-Of-Poyais/

Gregor MacGregor, the Prince of Poyais by Victor Allan: https://www.historytoday.com/miscellanies/gregor-macgregor-prince-poyais

The Con Man Who Invented His Own Country by Evan Andrews: https://www.history.com/news/the-con-man-who-invented-his-own-country

Meet Gregor MacGregor, The Scottish Con Artist Who Convinced Britain He Was the Prince Of A Nonexistent Colony by Jeffrey Wang: https://allthatsinteresting.com/gregor-macgregor

Gregor MacGregor by Undiscovered Scotland: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/usbiography/mac/gregormacgregor.html

The Black Watch (Royal Highlanders): https://www.nam.ac.uk/explore/black-watch-royal-highlanders

5 Fast Facts About the East India Company by Brian Duignan: https://www.britannica.com/story/5-fast-facts-about-the-east-india-company

Francisco de Miranda by The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Francisco-de-Miranda

Simon Bolivar by Gerhard Straussmann Masur: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Simon-Bolivar

Edward Bowater: https://morethannelson.com/officer/edward-bowater/

How the East India Company became the world's most powerful business by Erin Blakemore: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/article/british-east-india-trading-company-most-powerful-business