Robert Bogle

Historical marker location:

112 S 8th Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

( Marker is on South 8th Street.)

Marker installed: 1991

(1774-1848).

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.