Each of the three chapters in Part I explores different means that the Royal Navy used to establish order among the officers, seamen and marines on board His Majesty's Ships on the North American and West Indies Station during the War of 1812. Chapter 1 examines the multiple layered web of written regulations, instructions and commands employed to create order. As noted in the Introduction, the bureaucratization of the navy was well underway by the outbreak of the war with the United States. The Admiralty’s use of legalistic sets of regulations, instructions and orders to establish the appropriate behaviour of all officers, and in turn seamen and marines, in the navy is further evidence of their effort to centralize power. The officers, from admirals down through captains and commanders, passed the stricter scrutiny along by producing additional written instructions to shape order on their own vessels. Chapter 2 examines the more traditional use of patronage and promotion, and monetary forms of inducement to gain compliance. These inducements offered the junior officer or the compliant sailor or marine the possibility of reward for conforming to authority's sense of order. Chapter 3 examines the use of religion, language, physical activity, and allowances in the form of leisure time and leave, food, alcohol and tobacco, to control those serving in the navy.