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===References=== {{Reflist|colwidth=20em}} ====Newspapers, journals and letters==== {{Commons}} {{refbegin}} *{{cite journal |last=Hasbrouck |first=Alfred |title= Gregor McGregor and the Colonization of Poyais, between 1820 and 1824 |journal=The Hispanic American Historical Review |publisher=Duke University Press |location=Durham, North Carolina |volume=7 |issue=4 |pages=438–459 |date=November 1927 |jstor=2505996 |doi=10.2307/2505996 }} *{{cite journal |title=The Poyais Bubble |journal=[[Quarterly Review]] |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=o7VZAAAAcAAJ&pg=PP12 |publisher=John Murray |location=London |number=XXVIII |pages=158–161 |date=October 1822<!--and January 1823--> |publication-date=February 1823 |access-date=11 July 2015 |ref={{harvid|Quarterly Review|1823}}}} *{{cite book |last=Verax |title=A Letter to the Editor of the Quarterly Review, etc. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_UkCAAAAYAAJ |publisher=C and J Rivington |location=London |date=1823 }} {{refend}} ====Online==== {{refbegin}} *{{cite ODNB |last= Dawson |first= Frank Griffith |title= MacGregor, Gregor (1786–1845) |location=Oxford |edition=online |year=2004 |doi= 10.1093/ref:odnb/17519 }} *{{cite web |last=Taylor |first=Bryan |title=The Fraud of the Prince of Poyais on the London Stock Exchange |url=https://www.globalfinancialdata.com/News/Articles/Poyais_article_v2.pdf |location=San Juan Capistrano, California |publisher=Global Financial Data |year=2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150716034447/https://www.globalfinancialdata.com/News/Articles/Poyais_article_v2.pdf |archive-date=16 July 2015 |access-date=12 June 2015 |url-status=dead }} *{{cite news |title=The King of Con-Men |newspaper=[[The Economist]] |location=London |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150516105021/http://www.economist.com/news/christmas-specials/21568583-biggest-fraud-history-warning-professional-and-amateur-investors |archive-date=16 May 2015 |url=https://www.economist.com/news/christmas-specials/21568583-biggest-fraud-history-warning-professional-and-amateur-investors |edition=online |date=22 December 2012 |access-date=16 May 2015 |ref={{harvid|The Economist|2012}} |url-status=dead }} {{refend}} ====Bibliography==== {{refbegin}} * {{cite book|title=The Life and Remains of Theodore Edward Hook. ''Volume II''.|last=Barham|first=R H Dalton|publisher=Richard Bentley|location=London|year=1849|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=C1JKAAAAMAAJ|oclc=1163344}} * {{cite book|last=Bennett|first=Charles E|author-link=Charles Edward Bennett|title=General MacGregor: Hero Or Rogue?|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zeIkPQAACAAJ|year=2001|publisher=River City Press|location=Jacksonville, Florida|isbn=978-0-9704987-2-4}} * {{cite book|title=Latin American Rebels and the United States, 1806–1822|last=Brown|first=Gordon S|publisher=McFarland & Company|location=Jefferson, North Carolina|year=2015|edition=First|isbn=978-0-7864-9899-4}} * {{cite book|chapter=Gregor MacGregor: Clansman, Conquistador and Coloniser on the Fringes of the British Empire|last=Brown|first=Matthew|title=Colonial Lives Across the British Empire: Imperial Careering in the Long Nineteenth Century|editor1-last=Lambert|editor1-first=David|editor2-last=Lester|editor2-first=Alan|publisher=Cambridge University Press|location=Cambridge|year=2006|edition=First|isbn=978-0-521-84770-4|pages=32–57}} * {{cite book|chapter=The Florida Republic: An Overview|last=Bushnell|first=David|author-link=David Bushnell (historian)|title=La República de las Floridas: Texts and Documents|editor-last=Bushnell|editor-first=David|publisher=Pan American Institute of Geography and History|location=Mexico City|year=1986|oclc=15520704|pages=8–18}} * {{cite book|last=Codd|first=Edward|year=1824|title=Proceedings of an inquiry and investigation, instituted by Major General Codd, His Majesty's Superintendent and Commander-in-chief at Belize, Honduras, relative to Poyais|publisher=Lawler and Quick}} * {{Cite book|last=Gregg|first=Richard T.|title=Gregor MacGregor, Cazique of Poyais, 1786-1845...or, Gregor MacGregor: on the Trail of the Gullible!|publisher=International Bond & Share Society|year=1999|isbn=0-9511250-2-8|location=London}} * {{cite book|title=Bolivar: The Liberator of Latin America|last=Harvey|first=Robert|publisher=Skyhorse Publishing|location=New York City, New York|year=2011|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XHw0MPck-xcC&pg=PT178|isbn=978-1-62087-663-3}} * {{cite book|title=A Pedlar's Pack of Ballads and Songs: With Illustrative Notes|last=Logan|first=W H|publisher=William Paterson|location=Edinburgh|year=1869|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uDhLAAAAIAAJ|oclc=5247923}} * {{cite book|title=The Indians of Central and South America: An Ethnohistorical Dictionary|last=Olson|first=James Stuart|publisher=Greenwood Press|location=Westport, Connecticut|year=1991|edition=First|isbn=978-0-313-26387-3}} * {{cite book|title=Filibusters and Expansionists: Jeffersonian Manifest Destiny, 1800–1821|last1=Owsley Jr|first1=Frank Lawrence|last2=Smith|first2=Gene A|publisher=Alabama University Press|location=Tuscaloosa, Alabama|year=1997|edition=First|isbn=978-0-8173-0880-3|ref={{harvid|Owsley|Smith|1997}}}} * {{cite book|title=Penny Ante Imperialism: The Mosquito Shore and the Bay of Honduras, 1600–1914: a Case Study in British Informal Empire|last=Naylor|first=Robert A|publisher=Fairleigh Dickinson University Press|location=Teaneck, New Jersey|year=1989|isbn=978-0-8386-3323-6}} * {{cite book|chapter=Failure Unfolds: The Loss of Amelia Island|last=Norris|first=L David|title=La República de las Floridas: Texts and Documents|editor-last=Bushnell|editor-first=David|publisher=Pan American Institute of Geography and History|location=Mexico City|year=1986|oclc=15520704|pages=19–33}} * {{cite book|title=Memoirs of Gregor M'Gregor: Comprising a Sketch of the Revolution in New Grenada and Venezuela, etc.|last=Rafter|first=Michael|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BUcUAAAAYAAJ|publisher=J J Stockdale|location=London|year=1820|oclc=316532821}} * {{cite book|last1=Robens|first1=Erich|last2=Jayaweera|first2=Shanath Amarasiri A|last3=Kiefer|first3=Susanne|title=Balances: Instruments, Manufacturers, History|publisher=Springer|location=Heidelberg|year=2014|isbn=978-3-642-36446-4}} * {{cite book|last=Rodriguez|first=Moises Enrique|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Cxd7AAAAMAAJ|title=Freedom's Mercenaries: Northern South America|publisher=Hamilton Books|location=Falls Village, Connecticut|year=2006|isbn=978-0-7618-3437-3}} * {{cite book|title=The Land That Never Was: Sir Gregor MacGregor and the Most Audacious Fraud in History|last=Sinclair|first=David|publisher=Da Capo Press|location=Boston, Massachusetts|year=2004|orig-year=2003|isbn=978-0-306-81309-2|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/landthatneverwas00sinc}} * {{cite book|title=Securities Fraud: Detection, Prevention and Control|last=Straney|first=Louis L|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|location=Hoboken, New Jersey|year=2011|isbn=978-0-470-91859-3}} * {{cite book|title=Sketch of the Mosquito Shore, Including the Territory of Poyais, etc.|last=Strangeways|first=Thomas|publisher=William Blackwood|location=Edinburgh|year=1822|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8u0MAAAAIAAJ|oclc=1850212}} * {{cite book|last=Vittorino|first=Antonio|title=Relaciones colombo-británicas de 1823 a 1825: según los documentos del Foreign Office|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RTAYAAAAYAAJ|year=1990|location=Barranquilla|publisher=Ediciones Uninorte|isbn=978-958-9105-22-1}} * {{cite book|title=The Spirit of the Public Journals, For the Year 1824, etc.|editor-last=Westmacott|editor-first=Charles Molloy|editor-link=Charles Molloy Westmacott|publisher=Sherwood, Jones & Co|location=London|year=1825|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4hcnkKVk47gC|oclc=862786520}} {{refend}}
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