Investors, many of them Scottish, put forward vast sums towards creating a colony in central America. They were told it was a sure bet, a land of milk and honey - another paradise on the isthmus.
Sounds familiar? If you listened last week, you might think that once bitten, Scots would be twice shy.
Instead, bonds for Gregor MacGregor’s Principality of Poyais were oversubscribed and colonists easy to find. They would all profit from this rich and fertile land that was larger than Wales and ripe for settlement.
The only problem was that Poyais didn’t exist.
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Music credits
The theme music is Newsroom by Riot.
The other music featured in this episode was High School Snaps by Broke For Free (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Broke_For_Free/Slam_Funk/Broke_For_Free_-_Slam_Funk_-_06_High_School_Snaps) and Behind Your Window by Kai Engel (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kai_Engel/Idea/Kai_Engel_-_Idea_-_04_Behind_Your_Window). Both are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
AH 12 Opening the iron curtain - the DDR's day of dissent
AH 11 Operation Unthinkable - Churchill's plan to attack Russia and start a Third World War
AH 10 Louis of England - history’s forgotten King of England
AH 09 Princess Mary Tudor's flight to freedom
AH 08 Cancelling Christmas and the Plum Pudding Riots
AH 06 A wonderful paradise on the Isthmus of Panama
AH 05 Roosevelt's third term and the voice from the sewers
AH 04 The British Hindenberg disaster and the demise of Imperial Airships
AH 03 Hitler’s dreams to unify his empire with a monstrous railway
AH 02 Draining the swamp -Garibaldi's plan to diver Rome's river
AH 01 Achtung! Achtung! Dystopian adventures with Nazi TV
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