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Maury the Great Hydrographer and Naval Reformer
A biographical tribute to Matthew Fontaine Maury, detailing his birth January 14 1806 near Fredericksburg Virginia his rise as a leading hydrographer and navigator the founder of the National Observatory and Hydrographic Department the Wind and Current Charts that transformed ocean travel his Civil War era service for the Confederacy and his enduring scientific legacy praised for advancing meteorology navigation and naval science.
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Martining
United Daughters of the
Naval Academy At
Annapolis
Matthew Fontaine Maury
Fredericksburg
Tennessee
Franklin
John Minor Maury
West Indies
Matthew
Sam Houston
Brandywine
Marquis de Lafayette
France
Vincennes
United States Navy
Wilkes
Jones
Maury
Secretary of the Navy
Southern Literary Messenger
Richmond
Panama
Pacific
Florida
Gulf
Mississippi
Navy Yard
Memphis
Navy
Hydrographic Office
Great
National Observatory and Hydrographic Department
United States
High Seas
New York
San Francisco
Cape Horn
Naval Retiring Board
Congress
Humbolt and Quetelet
W. Pield
York
England
Virginia
Confederacy
Russia
America
Southampton
Lee
St. Thomas
Virginia Islands
South
Mexico
University of Cambridge
West Point
Virginia Military Institute
Lexington
Middle West
Institute
Stonewall Jackson