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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 1,077,294 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Gregor MacGregor is the 1,023rd most popular military personnel, the 1,909th most popular biography from United Kingdom and the 44th most popular British Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Gregor MacGregor ranks 1,023 out of 1,468. Before him are Karl Friedrich von Steinmetz, Manuel Erotikos Komnenos, Otto Ciliax, John Paul Jones, Pierre André de Suffren, and Max von Gallwitz. After him are Bardas Phokas the Younger, Magnia Urbica, John Alcock, Nadezhda Durova, Ramón de Cardona, and François Séverin Marceau.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1786, Gregor MacGregor ranks 28. Before him are Ludwig Börne, Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, Gaspar del Bufalo, Julius Jacob von Haynau, Winfield Scott, and Justinus Kerner. After him are Albrecht Adam, Nicolás Bravo, Agustina de Aragón, Giovanni Battista Amici, Marc Seguin, and Jacques Philippe Marie Binet. Among people deceased in 1845, Gregor MacGregor ranks 19. Before him are Isabella Colbran, Bernardino Rivadavia, Dominique, comte de Cassini, Nicolas Théodore de Saussure, Henrik Wergeland, and Vincent-Marie Viénot, Count of Vaublanc. After him are George II, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont, Amédée Louis Michel le Peletier, comte de Saint-Fargeau, Nikoloz Baratashvili, Jónas Hallgrímsson, Wazir Akbar Khan, and Rafael Urdaneta.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Gregor MacGregor ranks 1,909 out of 7,765. Before him are John Paul Jones (1747), Centwine of Wessex (643), William of Winchester, Lord of Lunenburg (1184), William Buckland (1784), Ine of Wessex (700), and Anne Conway (1631). After him are E. Nesbit (1858), John Dollond (1706), John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe (1859), Robert Smith (1959), Edith Pargeter (1913), and Neil Tennant (1954).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In United Kingdom

Among military personnels born in United Kingdom, Gregor MacGregor ranks 44. Before him are J. F. C. Fuller (1878), John Fastolf (1380), Arthur Percival (1887), Henry Tandey (1891), William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe (1729), and John Paul Jones (1747). After him are John Alcock (1892), Captain Tom (1920), Henry Allingham (1896), James Wolfe (1727), Claude Auchinleck (1884), and David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty (1871).

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