In this episode of Half-Arsed History, discover the wild soldiering career of the famous swindler Gregor MacGregor, who talked his way into (and out of) all sorts of wild adventures while fighting for various Latin American independence movements.
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Image: Watson, George. Portrait of Gregor MacGregor. Circa 1804. Oil on canvas. Via Wikimedia.
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