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Why had Henry Meiggs's fortune largely disappeared by the time of his death?

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... due to the murder of President Balta in 1872 and the serious undermining of the financial stability of Peru in the middle 1870s, resulting in the unwillingness and inability of the Peruvian government to complete its payments ...

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