Civil War gold hoax
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civil-war-gold-hoax-184-7082895
title:
Civil War gold hoax
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The Civil War Gold Hoax, also known as the Bogus Proclamation of 1864 was an 1864 unsuccessful financial hoax perpetrated during the American Civil War by American journalists Joseph Howard Jr. and Francis Mallison of the Brooklyn Eagle. Howard and Mallson hoped to exploit uncertainty about the ongoing war and trigger a sudden financial panic and profit from it. The conspirators bought gold on margin and then attempted to circulate a false proclamation from President Abraham Lincoln among New Yo
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1864 unsuccessful financial hoax
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_War_gold_hoax
date created:
2004-09-13T10:23:00Z
date modified:
2024-09-07T14:13:05Z
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