Sickles' Excelsior Brigade

Historical marker location:

Cumberland Township, Pennsylvania

( Memorial is at the intersection of Sickles Avenue and Wheatfield Road, on the left when traveling north on Sickles Avenue.)

Marker installed: 1893

E Pluribus Unum.

The first recorded U.S. flag-raising on foreign soil occurred in 1777, when the Stars and Stripes were flown during a naval battle off the coast of Quiberon Bay, France, commanded by Pennsylvania native John Paul Jones.