MILITARY PERSONNEL

Gregor MacGregor

1786 - 1845

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General Gregor MacGregor (24 December 1786 – 4 December 1845) was a Scottish soldier, adventurer, and confidence trickster who attempted from 1821 to 1837 to draw British and French investors and settlers to "Poyais", a fictional Central American territory that he claimed to rule as "Cazique". Hundreds invested their savings in supposed Poyaisian government bonds and land certificates, while about 250 emigrated to MacGregor's invented country in 1822–23 to find only an untouched jungle; more than half of them died. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gregor MacGregor has received more than 1,141,103 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Gregor MacGregor is the 1,362nd most popular military personnel (down from 1,023rd in 2019), the 2,286th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,904th in 2019) and the 58th most popular British Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Gregor MacGregor ranks 1,362 out of 2,058. Before him are Maher al-Assad, Prince George of Hesse-Darmstadt, Otto Ruge, José Enrique Varela, Leopold Okulicki, and Constantine Angelos. After him are Erigyius, Walther Wever, Pavel Batov, David Stirling, Euphemius, and Saitō Yoshitatsu.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1786, Gregor MacGregor ranks 36. Before him are Marc Seguin, Agustina de Aragón, Jacques Philippe Marie Binet, Sergey Uvarov, Carl Friedrich von Ledebour, and Giuseppe Benedetto Cottolengo. After him are Albrecht Adam, Jean Guillaume Auguste Lugol, Alexander Chavchavadze, José Joaquín Prieto, Sunthorn Phu, and Andreas Metaxas. Among people deceased in 1845, Gregor MacGregor ranks 27. Before him are Rafael Urdaneta, Christian Frederik Hansen, Heinrich von Bellegarde, Vincent-Marie Viénot, Count of Vaublanc, Henrik Steffens, and Amédée Louis Michel le Peletier, comte de Saint-Fargeau. After him are Nils Gabriel Sefström, Wazir Akbar Khan, Antoine Risso, Elizabeth Fry, Philipp Jakob Cretzschmar, and Johnny Appleseed.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Gregor MacGregor ranks 2,286 out of 8,785. Before him are Andrew Birkin (1945), Michael Halliday (1925), Allan Holdsworth (1946), Charles Gray (1928), Marjorie Bruce (1297), and Douglas Mawson (1882). After him are Peter J. Ratcliffe (1954), John Haigh (1909), Noel Redding (1945), Richard Johnson (1927), John Taverner (1490), and William Hudson (1730).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In United Kingdom

Among military personnels born in United Kingdom, Gregor MacGregor ranks 58. Before him are Bernard Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg (1889), Ronald Speirs (1920), David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty (1871), Claude Choules (1901), J. F. C. Fuller (1878), and John Paul Jones (1747). After him are David Stirling (1915), Edmund Ironside, 1st Baron Ironside (1880), Sir William Congreve, 2nd Baronet (1772), Sidney Smith (1764), John Alcock (1892), and Bruce Fraser, 1st Baron Fraser of North Cape (1888).

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