Acknowledgments Prologue Parsonage boyhood Midshipman The arctic, India & America Nicaraguan expedition The end of the American war Marriage in the West Indies On the beach War with France Combined operations Calvi First fleet action On detached service Evacuation of the Mediterranean St. Vincent Mutiny in the fleet Failure at Teneriffe Convalescence Special mission The Nile Naples & the Hamiltons Palermo Sicilian counter-revolution Mediterranean activity Homecoming: the end of a marriage Armed neutrality Copenhagen The Baltic Off-shore squadron, Boulogne Temporary peace War resumed Threat of invasion Paradise Merton Trafalgar Aftermath Sources & Bibliography Index