March 6th

[Anav]

1822 - USS Enterprise captures four pirate ships in the Gulf of Mexico.
1862 - USS Monitor departs New York for Hampton Roads, Va.

[Coog]

You forgot one:

1836 - Republic of Texas Schooner Liberty captures Mexican Schooner Pelicano

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

[csadn]

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]

Sorry...not US Navy.......
I will leave Texas history to you!

[David Manley]

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]

1941- Also Gunther Prien dies aboard his U-boot.

[Berthier]

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]

Those Frenchies were particularly "actif" in the 1970s :)

[Coog]

1822 - USS Enterprise captures four pirate ships in the Gulf of Mexico.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_In...United_States)

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

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