11th Corps Headquarters

Historical marker location:

Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

( Marker is on Baltimore Pike (State Highway 97), on the right when traveling north.)

Marker installed: 1913

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.