Chapter XIX (5)

_Two Sicilies_, The,
i. navy of, in 1793, 78;
attitude toward French Revolution, 84;
effect of Bonaparte's victories upon, 1796, 211;
abandons the Coalition, 211;
strategic importance of, 218;
dissatisfaction at French advance in Italy, 279;
defensive alliance with Austria, 282;
Nelson's arrival in Naples, 285;
ii. premature hostilities with France, 1;
the Court flies to Palermo, 2;
Naples occupied by French troops, 2;
French forced to evacuate the Kingdom, 6;
French division occupies the heel of Italy after Marengo, 59;
evacuates after Peace of Amiens 71;
reoccupation after renewal of war in 1803, 109;
part played in Napoleon's combinations, 110, 124, 185;
Joseph Bonaparte, King of, 278.

_United States_,
difficulties with France, 1793-1797, i. 241, ii 242-248;
ii. cession of Louisiana by Spain to France, 78;
jealousy of political interference on the American continent by
European nations, 103;
uneasiness at cession of Louisiana, 104;
buys Louisiana of France, 105;
sufferings from privateers in the West Indies, 1805, 213;
importance of American carrying trade, 231;
growth of merchant shipping, 232;
injuries under Rule of 1756, 233-237;
Treaty of Commerce and Navigation with Great Britain, 1794,
237-239;
difficulties with France arising thence, 239;
relations with Great Britain, 1794-1804, 241;
French aggressions upon American shipping, 242-246;
demands of Spain and Holland, 247;
course of trade with Europe, 1793-1804, 253, 254, 354;
hostilities with France, 1798-1800, 258;
trade with belligerent colonies, 266-268, 353;
British seizures of American ships, 1804, 269;
commercial treaty of 1806 with Great Britain rejected by
Senate, 275;
effect upon American trade of British Order of January,
1807, 276;
Embargo Act of December, 1807, 282,
succeeded by Non-Intercourse Act, 1809, 283;
importance of American market to Great Britain, 291;
losses by Napoleon's decrees of Bayonne and Rambouillet, 292;
American ships in Dutch ports confiscated by Napoleon, 320,
321;
expiration of Non-Intercourse Act, and proviso succeeding it,
331;
American trade in Baltic, 1809-1812, 345, and note;
declaration of war against Great Britain, 351.

_Van Stabel_, French rear-admiral,
i. escape of, from Lord Howe, 66;
protects large convoy from America, 123;
brings it safely to Brest, 161.

"_Vengeur_," French ship-of-the-line,
i. desperate action with the British ship "Brunswick," 140-143;
sinks, 144.

_Venice_, Republic of,
i. deprived of possessions on Italian mainland, also Istria and
Dalmatia, 235;
insurrection against French, 246;
conduct of Bonaparte toward, 247-249;
annihilation of, 250.

_Villaret-Joyeuse_, French admiral,
i. letters of, 56;
position before Revolution, 57;
sails in command of Brest fleet, 124;
meeting with British fleet, 126;
manœuvres of, May 28 and 29, 1794, 126-134;
conduct in battle of June 1, 136-139, 144-147;
strategy of, 159, 160;
anecdote, 160 (note);
winter cruise of, January, 1795, 163, 164;
action with Lord Bridport, 177-178;
appointed to command fleet in Irish Expedition, 1796, 349;
views as to the expedition, 349;
detached from it at Hoche's request, 350.

_Villeneuve_, French admiral,
i. sent with a division from Toulon to Brest, 220;
commands the rear division at battle of the Nile, 271;
conduct of, 272;
ii. appointed to command the Toulon squadron in 1804, 130;
Napoleon's instructions to, 142, 149, 164;
first sortie from Toulon, 143;
return to port, 144;
second sailing and arrival in West Indies, 151;
inaction there, 161,
and return to Europe, 162;
meeting with Calder's fleet, 169, 171;
anchors in Vigo Bay and thence goes to Ferrol, 173;
sails from Ferrol for Brest, 179,
but bears up for Cadiz, 180;
Napoleon's charges against, 185;
battle of Trafalgar, 187-195;
criticism of, 196.

_Wellesley_, British general,
ii. landing in Portugal, 1808, and victory of Vimiero, 292;
landing in Lisbon, 1809, beginning of Peninsular command, and
operations in Portugal, 315;
lines of Torres Vedras, 318;
capture of Ciudad Rodrigo and Badajoz, 348, 349.

_West Indies_, commercial importance of,
in the French Revolution, i. 109, 110;
character of military control required, 110-112, ii. 252;
military importance of Lesser Antilles, i. 114, 117, 119;
military and naval operations in, 115-121;
ii. French Expedition to, 1801, ii. 78, 94, 103;
Nelson's estimate of, 160;
American trade with, 232, 236-238, 245, 253, 266-269;
importance to British commercial system, 252, and note, 393.

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