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- so far as to claim the rivers of Poyais contained "globules of pure gold". The Poyais Emigrant We'll a' gang to Poyais thegither, We'll a' gang ower the...
- Reports also exist that five more vessels set out for Poyais but that when word reached Britain that Poyais had no foundation in reality, the British Royal...
- Green Cross of Florida flag, also used as flag of Poyais....
- Scottish con man Gregor MacGregor pretended to have been named "Cacique of Poyais" by George Frederic Augustus I and sold forged land rights to eager settlers...
- the area. Bennett diverted Thomas Gould, who was looking to revive the Poyais venture (in a part of what is now Honduras) towards colonisation based on...
- speculation in South American investments, including the non-existent country of Poyais, invented by Scottish soldier Gregor MacGregor. One of the firm's longest...
- changing to Leith–Poyais. The Scottish adventurer Gregor MacGregor attempted to found a colony in Honduras that he called Poyais. MacGregor chartered...
- Register was more up-to-date. Poyais: Honduras Packet sailed from London on 10 September 1822 with 70 emigrants bound for Poyais. They arrived at Black River...
- trickster attempted to draw British and French investors and settlers to "Poyais", a fictional Central American territory he claimed to rule as "Cazique"...
- grant of a huge tract he made to Gregor MacGregor in 1820, an area called Poyais, which encomp****ed lands once granted by King George I to a group of settlers...