Twelfth U.S. Infantry

Historical marker location:

Cumberland Township, Pennsylvania

( Marker is on Ayres Avenue, on the left when traveling west.)

Marker installed: 1907

First Brigade - Second Division. Fifth Corps.

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.