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Tables of Contents for A Sea of Words
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of Illustrations
xi
Preface to the Second Edition
xiii
Dean King
Foreword
xvii
Dean King
Acknowledgments
xxi
The Royal Navy During the War of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic War
1
30
John B. Hattendorf
King, Cabinet, and Parliament
2
1
The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty
3
1
The Admiralty Office
4
1
The Navy Board
5
1
The Ordnance Board
6
1
The Size of the Navy
6
1
Ships and Tactics
7
5
The Royal Dockyards and Ropeyards
12
1
Sea Officers: Commissioned and Warrant
13
4
Daily Life on a Warship
17
4
An Overview of the War of the French Revolution
20
1
The War of the First Coalition, 1793-1798
21
2
The War of the Second Coalition, 1799-1801
23
1
The Peace of Amiens, 1802-1803
24
1
An Overview of the Napoleonic War
24
1
The War of the Third Coalition, 1805
25
1
The Fourth Coalition, 1806-1807, and the Naval War After Trafalgar
26
1
The Fifth Coalition, 1809
27
1
The Peninsular War, 1807-1814
27
1
The War of 1812, 1812-1815
28
1
The War of the Sixth Coalition, 1812-1814
29
1
The War of the Seventh Coalition, 1815
29
2
Stephen Maturin and Naval Medicine in the Age of Sail
31
20
J. Worth Estes
Doctors and the Royal Navy
31
2
Serving at Sea
33
3
Serving on Board Hospital Ships or at Hospitals
36
1
The Disease Burden of the Royal Navy
37
5
The Medicine Chest
42
2
Trauma and Surgery
44
5
What Good Could Dr. Maturin's Medicine Do?
49
2
Maps, Types of Sailing Ships, Ship Diagrams, and a Warship's Boats
51
24
The Alphabetical Lexicon to the Aubrey-Maturin Novels, with Biographies of Historical Figures, Battle Accounts, and Foreign Words and Phrases
75
408
Appendix: A Time Line of the Napoleonic Wars, the War of 1812, and the Fight for Independence in Chile
483
16
Selected Bibliography
499
4
About the Authors
503