During the French and Napoleonic Revolutionary Wars the British Royal Navy established its reputation as one of the most effective fighting institutions in history. The Navy not only played a key role in defeating France, but periodically opposed, usually with notable success, against its allies, Holland, Spain and Denmark, then establishing a maritime supremacy that would remain unchallenged for the next hundred years. In the development of the simulation of these battles we will use the board game "Flying Colors" from GMT Games. The rules of the game when they appear for the first time, will appear in a footnote. And the originals of the rules and tables are available in the Annexes at the end of the book.