Intro -- Cover -- Title Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- A Note on the Third Edition -- Preface to the Second Edition -- Foreword by Dean King -- Introduction -- Not a Moment to Lose by John B. Hattendorf -- MAP: Neat Diagram of the Winds: January to June -- MAP: Neat Diagram of the Winds: July to December -- MAP: Colonies and Trade Routes in 1814 -- Maps of England, Ireland, and Europe -- MAP: England and Wales in 1812 -- MAP: Southern England -- MAP: Ireland in 1812 -- MAP: London in 1812 -- MAP: Whitehall in 1812 -- MAP: Europe in 1812 -- Map Key -- Chapter 1. Master and Commander: Mastering the Mediterranean -- Algeciras Bay -- Gibraltar -- MAP: Highlights of the Sophie's Lucky Cruise -- Minorca -- Port Mahon -- Strait of Gibraltar (the Gut) -- Chapter 2. Post Captain: England, the Continent, and a North Atlantic Showdown -- MAP: "Can He Dance, Mate? -- MAP: Two Battles with the Bellone -- Bath -- Bay of Biscay -- Cadiz -- Chatham -- The Downs, North and South -- English Channel or the Channel -- Goodwin Sands -- The Liberties of the Savoy -- The Nore -- Plymouth -- Portsmouth -- Saint-Valéry -- Sussex -- Toulon Wapping Dock -- Chapter 3. HMS Surprise: A Lively Time in the Med and a Surprise Voyage to the East Indies -- MAP: A Fool's Errand and Borneo Rubies -- Bombay -- Calcutta -- Canary Islands -- Gulf of Giens -- India -- Madeira -- Norman Cross -- St. Paul's Rocks -- Tenerife -- Chapter 4. The Mauritius Command: Action in the Indian Ocean -- MAP: A Voyage to the Indian Ocean -- Ashgrove Cottage -- MAP: Warm Work in Shallow Waters -- Cape of Good Hope -- Dry Salvages -- Eight Degree Channel -- Mauritius -- The Solent -- Ten Degree Channel -- Chapter 5. Desolation Island: From Hot Water in Hampshire to Shattering South Seas -- Cape Finisterre -- Cape Verde Islands -- MAP: Dueling Ships in the Lower Forties.

Kerguelen Island -- Recife -- Chapter 6. The Fortune of War: An Unlucky Voyage from the East Indies -- MAP: Fire, Sun, Lead, and Lunatics -- Cape Town -- Dutch East Indies -- MAP: A Challenge of Honor Accepted -- Spice Islands -- Chapter 7. The Surgeon's Mate: From North America to the Baltic to the Tower in the Temple -- MAP: Home in a Hell-Fire Hurry -- MAP: A Diplomatic Mission in Northern Waters -- Baltic Sea -- Brest -- Elsinore or Helsingør -- Gothenburg or Göteborg -- Halifax -- North Sea -- Sable Island -- Chapter 8. The Ionian Mission: Toil and Trouble in the Mediterranean -- MAP: One Bey at a Time -- Barbary States -- Cape St. Vincent -- Constantinople -- Ile de Groix -- Ionian Isles -- Lorient -- Palermo -- Chapter 9. Treason's Harbour: Fiasco in the Middle East -- MAP: Shark-Infested Waters -- Adriatic Sea -- Malta -- Mascara -- Pelusium -- Red Sea -- Suez -- Chapter 10. The Far Side of the World: Around the Horn in a Hurry -- MAP: In Pursuit of the Norfolk -- Cape Horn -- Galapagos Islands -- Marquesas Islands -- São Francisco River -- Tierra del Fuego -- Valparaiso -- Chapter 11. The Reverse of the Medal: Homeward Bound from the West Indies -- Azores -- MAP: Three Spartans -- Barbados -- The City -- The Inns of Court -- Sargasso Sea -- The Temple -- Temple Bar -- Chapter 12. The Letter of Marque: Redemption in the Azores and on the Normandy Coast -- MAP: Action in the Azores -- Riga -- Shelmerston -- Spanish Main -- Woolcombe House -- Chapter 13. The Thirteen Gun Salute: False Starts and the East Indies -- MAP: An Unexpected Round-trip -- MAP: Destination Pulo Prabang -- Batavia -- Corunna or La Coruña -- Java -- Sunda Strait -- Tristan da Cunha -- Chapter 14. The Nutmeg of Consolation: From the Java Sea to Sydney Cove -- MAP: Cracking on Like Smoke and Oakum -- Antipodes -- Java Sea -- MAP: A Blue-Water Sail to Sydney Cove.

New South Wales -- Port Jackson -- Sulu Archipelago -- Sydney Cove -- Chapter 15. The Truelove: An Urgent Detour to the Not-So-Pacific Island of Moahu -- MAP: A South Pacific Detour -- Annamooka Island -- Christmas Island -- Easter Island -- Nootka Sound -- Norfolk Island -- Tahiti -- Chapter 16. The Wine-Dark Sea: South America at Last -- Callao -- Chile -- MAP: Nature's Broadside -- MAP: Maturin's Revolutionary Excursion -- Cuzco -- Diego Ramirez -- MAP: The Pride Which Goeth Before Destruction -- Hull -- Potosi -- Chapter 17. The Commodore: Great Guns on the Coasts of Africa and Ireland -- MAP: A Great Roaring Din on the Slave Coast -- MAP: Nabbing the French Near Bantry Bay -- Ascension Island -- Bere Haven -- Cape Coast Castle -- County Cork -- The Downs -- Freetown -- North Foreland -- Sierra Leone -- South Foreland -- Temple Stairs -- Whydah or Ouidah -- Chapter 18. The Yellow Admiral: Rough Seas on the Brest Blockade -- MAP: Woolcombe House and Environs (and Diana's Route to Tor Bay) -- MAP: On the "Siberia" Blockade -- Brest -- Brittany or Bretagne -- Ushant or Ile d'Ouessant -- Chapter 19. The Hundred Days: Confusion to Boney, Encore! -- MAP: Trimming Boney's Sails in the Med -- Alboran -- Algiers -- Bocche di (or Gulf of) Cattaro -- Castelnuovo -- Cattaro -- Durazzo -- Lake Scutari -- Lesina -- Ragusa -- Ragusa Vecchio -- Chapter 20. Blue at the Mizzen: A Hot Time in Chile -- MAP: Waterloo, June 18, 1815 -- MAP: A Broadside for Freedom -- Atacama Desert -- Cape of the Eleven Thousand Virgins (or Cape Virjenes) -- Chile -- Chiloé Archipelago -- Chonos Archipelago -- Golconda -- Magellan's Strait -- Tullyallan -- Maritime Measures -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Acknowledgments -- Copyright.