Ball, Sir Alexander J., British captain, letter to Nelson, i. 211;
  joins Nelson’s division at Gibraltar, 316;
  services in saving the flagship, 324;
  advice asked by Nelson, 333;
  at the Battle of the Nile, 347, 352-354;
  accompanies Nelson to Naples, 366;
  gallantry towards Lady Hamilton, 386;
  serves ashore at Malta, 392, 406-409, ii. 7, 9, 11, 12, 13;
  mentions with unbelief reports about Nelson and Lady Hamilton, i. 396;
  summoned to join Nelson upon the incursion of Admiral Bruix,
  419-421, 426;
  ordered to resume duties at Malta, 423;
  mention of Nelson in letters to Lady Hamilton, ii. 23, 30;
  visits Nelson at Merton, 158;
  anecdote of Nelson told by him, 158;
  letters from Nelson to, 211, 213, 242-244, 270, 274, 278, 280, 286, 292;
  opinion as to French objects in 1804, 212;
  Nelson’s testy vexation with, 238;
  opinion as to the management of coast lookout stations, 318, note.

Barbary States. See Algiers, Tripoli, Tunis.

Barham, Lord, Nelson’s interview with, as Comptroller of the Navy, i. 85;
  First Lord of the Admiralty, ii. 291 and note, 317, 320, 321;
  Nelson’s interviews with, 320, 333;
  Nelson’s letters to, 324, 353, 355, 358.

Bastia, town in Corsica, in possession of French, i. 116;
  blockade of, by Nelson, 120, 122;
  engagement with batteries of, 120;
  description of, 121;
  Nelson’s opinion as to besieging, 121-124, 126;
  siege of, 127-131;
  capitulation of, 129;
  Nelson’s estimate as to his own services at, 132, 133, 152;
  Nelson directed to superintend evacuation of, by British, 247;
  evacuation of, 251-253.

Battles, land, mentioned: 
  Aboukir, ii. 17;
  Castiglione, i. 241, 244;
  Hohenlinden, ii. 63;
  Loano, i. 201;
  Marengo, ii. 37;
  Novi, 15.

Battles, naval, mentioned: 
  Calder’s action, ii. 307, 313, 318, 323;
  Camperdown, i. 309;
  Copenhagen, ii. 79-97, 98, 161-167;
  First of June (Lord Howe’s), i. 150, 176;
  July 13, 1795, i. 178-182;
  March 14, 1795, i. 166-173;
  the Nile, i. 343-358;
  St. Vincent, i. 268-277;
  Trafalgar, ii. 377-397.

Beatty, Dr., surgeon of the “Victory,”
  account of Nelson’s habits and health, ii. 225-228 and note;
  present at Nelson’s death, 388, 389, 392, 393, 396.

Beaulieu, Austrian general, commands the army in Italy, 1796, i. 219;
  defeated by Bonaparte, and driven into the Tyrol, 220-223, 232.

Beckford, William, opinion of Lady Hamilton, i. 381;
  visited by Nelson at Fonthill, ii. 51-53;
  anecdote of Nelson, 52.