Second Brigade

Historical marker location:

Cumberland Township, Pennsylvania

( Marker is at the intersection of Slocum Avenue and Geary Avenue, on the right when traveling west on Slocum Avenue.)

Marker installed: 1912

Twelfth Corps. Army of the Potomac.

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.