ii. 4, 5, 6, 39, 183, 190-194, 264-266, 282, 285-287;

joy of, upon receipt of the news of Battle of the Nile, i. 371, 372; strategic weight of, in the counsels of Bonaparte, 391; Nelson persuades, to declare war against France, 389-393; overwhelming defeat of, and flight of Court to Palermo, 394, 395; restoration of the royal authority in Naples, ii. 6; refusal of the king to reside in Naples, 5, 6; occupation of Adriatic coast of, by Bonaparte, 1803-5, 179.

Vado, Bay of, occupied by Austrians in 1795, i. 178; best anchorage between Nice and Genoa, 186; importance of, to France, 187, 214, 215; evacuated by Austrians after the Battle of Loano, 201, 208; held definitively by French, 223.

Valetta, French in Malta shut in, i. 392, 407, 409, ii. 7; Nelson's difficulties in maintaining the blockade, ii. 7-10, 12-14; urgency of Spencer and Troubridge upon Nelson to await the capitulation of, 28-30, 32-35.

"Vanguard," British ship-of-the-line, Nelson's flagship at the Battle of the Nile, commissioned, i. 310; dismasted off Corsica, 323; at the Battle of the Nile, 348, 349, 350; arrives at Naples, 371; Nelson's flag shifted from, to the "Foudroyant," 423.

Vansittart, British envoy to Copenhagen in 1801, ii. 71-73; report of Danish defences, 73; explanations conveyed from Nelson to the Admiralty by, 73.

"Victory," British hundred-gun ship, Nelson's flagship at Trafalgar, Jervis's flagship at Battle of St. Vincent, i. 275; Nelson sails in, for the Mediterranean, ii. 175; his long stay on board of, 222, 313; returns to England, 318; again sails with Nelson, 338; at Battle of Trafalgar, 370, 378-380, 384-389, 390-394, 397.

Villeneuve, French admiral, commands the rear at the Battle of the Nile, i. 357; escapes with two ships-of-the-line and two frigates, 357; indecision of, 358, ii. 349; commands the Toulon squadron, after the death of Latouche Tréville,