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Anav
03-06-2012, 16:51
1822 - USS Enterprise captures four pirate ships in the Gulf of Mexico.
1862 - USS Monitor departs New York for Hampton Roads, Va.

Coog
03-06-2012, 17:24
You forgot one:

1836 - Republic of Texas Schooner Liberty captures Mexican Schooner Pelicano

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texan_schooner_Liberty

csadn
03-06-2012, 17:38
You forgot one:

1836 - Republic of Texas Schooner Liberty captures Mexican Schooner Pelicano

The real tragedy: Mexico had two steam-powered, shell-firing-cannon-armed frigates (_Montezuma_, and _Guadeloupe_), the latter of which was iron-hulled; with those ships, Mexico could have done serious harm to the USN during the Mex-Am War.

Anav
03-06-2012, 17:58
Sorry...not US Navy.......
I will leave Texas history to you!

David Manley
03-06-2012, 23:04
Also today:

1979 - HMS Phaeton captured the French privateer Actif off Ushant
1811 - A squadron under Rear Admiral Keats launched a series of raids on the Spanish coast between Rota and Porta de Santa Maria, destroying many shore batteries
1941 - Winston Churchill first coined the phrase "The Battle of the Atlantic" with respect to the war between the convoys and U boats.

Churruca
03-07-2012, 00:59
1941- Also Gunther Prien dies aboard his U-boot.

Berthier
03-07-2012, 02:33
Also today:

1979 - HMS Phaeton captured the French privateer Actif off Ushant


You have to salute the persistence of the RN...chased that privateer for two hundred years! see I've been reduced to picking on typo's while waiting for the games release. The horror!

David Manley
03-07-2012, 04:33
Those Frenchies were particularly "actif" in the 1970s :)

Coog
01-22-2014, 16:47
1822 - USS Enterprise captures four pirate ships in the Gulf of Mexico.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Indies_Squadron_(United_States)


1862 - USS Monitor departs New York for Hampton Roads, Va.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Monitor