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,ii. 257, 271;Napoleon's orders to, 271, 272;first sailing of, and disasters encountered by, 272, 275, 276, 277;second sailing of, from Toulon, 284;arrival at Cadiz and in the West Indies, 285;Nelson learns of his passing the Straits, 287,and of his destination to the West Indies, 292-295;leaves West Indies for Europe, on learning Nelson's arrival, 301;followed by Nelson, 302;engagement of, with Calder's fleet, 313;arrives at Ferrol, 314;sails from Ferrol, 323;arrival in Cadiz, 328;dispositions for battle, before Trafalgar, 349, 369, 370, 379, 380;commander-in-chief of the entire combined fleet, 363;encounter of his flagship and Nelson's, 384-387;surrender of, 391.Villettes, British general, at the siege of Bastia,i.130;Nelson's criticism on, when commander of the troops at Malta, 1803,ii. 193;characteristic letters of Nelson to, 200, 250.Wellington, Nelson's one meeting with,ii. 321.West Indies, Nelson's early service in,i.17-30;called by Nelson "the station for honour,"i.37;Nelson enforces Navigation Act in,53-65;wishes to return to, in search of more active service,108,115;conjectures destination of French Toulon fleet to, in 1804,ii. 249, 270;importance of, to Great Britain, 270;rendezvous fixed by Napoleon, for the concentration of his fleets, in 1805, 271, 283;Toulon squadron goes to, 284, 285;Nelson pursues to, 296, 297;Nelson's week in, in June, 1805, 298-303;his estimate of his services rendered by going there, 301, 305;Nelson returns to Europe from, 302-310.William Henry, Prince, son of George III., and captain in the British navy,first meeting of Nelson with,i.38,39;description of Nelson at twenty-four, by,39;accompanied by Nelson in visit to Havana,41;Nelson's association with, in 1786-87,74,75;gives away the bride at Nelson's wedding,75;intimacy of Nelson with,86-88;returns with his ship from America, contrary to orders,88;at variance with the King,88,89;made Duke of Clarence,89;effect of intimacy with, upon Nelson,89;subsequent correspondence between Nelson and,239,244,256,284,451;continues his friendship to Lady Nelson, after her husband's alienation,ii. 55.Woolward, Frances Herbert, maiden name of Lady Nelson,i.65.Wurmser, Austrian marshal, succeeds Beaulieu, after the latter's defeat by Bonaparte, in 1796,i.238;raises the siege of Mantua,238;Nelson's enterprise against Leghorn dependent on the success of,240;defeated by Bonaparte, at Castiglione and Lonato,241.Wyndham, British minister to Tuscany, mention of Nelson and the Hamiltons by,ii. 38, 39;strained relations of, towards Nelson and the Hamiltons, 39.