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Cyrus Smith (named '''Cyrus Harding''' in some translations) was one of the protagonists of Jules Verne 's novel Mysterious Island . He was an officer in the Union Army of the American Civil War . He was also a very skilled man, a great literary example of 19th Century Engineer .

Cyrus Smith is also a man possessed of the kind of high moral qualities common in Verne's protagonists. He is selfless, noble, honest, courageous, and utterly devoted to his companions. His MacGyver-esque practical knowledge of Physics , Chemistry , Botany , Navigation , and just about anything else you can imagine enablee the Mysterious Island's colonists to establish a thriving mini-civilization on their tiny chunk of land in record time.