Contents

List of Illustrations

Preface to the Second Edition by Dean King

Foreword by Dean King

The Royal Navy During the War of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic War by John B. Hattendorf

King, Cabinet, and Parliament

The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty

The Admiralty Office

The Navy Board

The Ordnance Board

The Size of the Navy

Ships and Tactics

The Royal Dockyards and Ropeyards

Sea Officers: Commissioned and Warrant

Daily Life on a Warship

An Overview of the War of the French Revolution

The War of the First Coalition, 1793-1798

The War of the Second Coalition, 1799-1801

The Peace of Amiens, 1802-1803

An Overview of the Napoleonic War

The War of the Third Coalition, 1805

The Fourth Coalition, 1806-1807, and the Naval War After Trafalgar

The Fifth Coalition, 1809

The Peninsular War, 1807-1814

The War of 1812, 1812-1815

The War of the Sixth Coalition, 1812-1814

The War of the Seventh Coalition, 1815

Stephen Maturin and Naval Medicine in the Age of Sail by J. Worth Estes

Doctors and the Royal Navy

Serving at Sea

Serving on Board Hospital Ships or at Hospitals

The Disease Burden of the Royal Navy

The Medicine Chest

Trauma and Surgery

What Good Could Dr. Maturin’s Medicine Do?

Maps, Types of Sailing Ships, Ship Diagrams, and a Warship’s Boats

The Alphabetical Lexicon to the Aubrey-Maturin Novels, with Biographies of Historical Figures, Battle Accounts, and Foreign Words and Phrases

Appendix: A Time Line of the Napoleonic Wars, the War of 1812, and the Fight for Independence in Chile

Selected Bibliography

Acknowledgments