Barouche Women" by Louisa May Alcott. Barouche A barouche is a large, open, four-wheeled carriage, both heavy and luxurious, drawn by two horses. It was fashionable throughout the 19th century. Its body provides seats for four passengers, two back-seat passengers vis-à-vis two behind the coachman's high box-seat. A leather roof can be raised to give back-seat passengers some protection from the weather. "Barouche" is an anglicisation of the German word "barutsche", via the Italian "baroccio" or "biroccio" and ultimately from the ancient Roman Empire's Latin "birotus", "two-wheeled". The name thus became a misnomer, as the later form of the carriage had
HMS Phaeton (1782) men. She was one day out of Bordeaux and had captured nothing. A week later, "Anson" and "Phaeton" captured the 32-gun privateer "Flore" after a 24-hour-long chase. Stopford, in his letter, described "Flore" as a frigate of 36 guns and 255 men. She was eight days out of Boulogne on a cruise. "Flore" had also served the Royal Navy in the American Revolutionary War. Then on 8 October "Phaeton" took the 16-gun privateer "Lévrier". Together with "Ambuscade" and "Stag", on 20 November she took the "Hirondelle". On 24 November 1798, "Phaeton" captured the French privateer brig "Resolue" (or "Resolu"). "Resolue"