Baccarat (baccara) is a gambling or banking game of French origin, played by any number of players, or rather bettors, and a banker, and available in casinos worldwide. The aim of the player is to form a hand whose point value is nearer to nine than the hand of the banker. Pip cards count as face value, pictures and tens as zero, and only the last digit of the total counts (so that for example seven plus six is worth three, not thirteen). The banker deals two cards to each player and two to himself, and covers the stakes of each with an equal sum. The cards are then examined, and according to the scores made the players take their own stake and the banker's, or the latter takes all or a certain number of the stakes. Research Baccarat
The Baccarat was a French Arras Class patrol vessel of 644 tons displacement launched in 1918. The Baccarat was powered by two oil-burning boilers providing a top speed of 20 knots and a range of 4800 km at 11 knots and carried a complement of about 110. She was armed with two 5.5 inch guns; one 3 inch anti-aircraft gun; two machine-guns and depth charges. She was scrapped in 1933. Research Baccarat
The Baccarat was a French torpedo boat destroyer of 600 tons displacement launched in 1939 as the German vessel T 11 and acquired by the French navy in 1946. The Baccarat was powered by four Schichau oil-fired boilers providing a top speed of 33 knots. She was armed with one 4.1 inch gun; one 40 mm anti-aircraft gun; two 37 mm anti-aircraft guns; twelve 20 mm anti-aircraft guns; twenty-one rockets; six 21 inch torpedo tubes and could carry 60 mines. Research Baccarat II
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