Preface to the Second Edition / Dean King -- Foreword / Dean King -- The Royal Navy During the War of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic War / 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 / 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.