The members of Matthew Fontaine Maury's family again urged him to abandon his plan of Mexican colonization and go to Russia, accepting the invitation of the Grand Duke Constantine, or go to France where Napoleon III had invited him to live.
Many nations sought the great mind of Maury, leading naval scientist of his time. Before the Civil War he was the most honored and possibly most noted living American among other nations of the world.
--Old B-R'er
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