Historical Marker
Three Disks, One Lacking
Historical marker location:
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
( Marker is at the intersection of Cherry Street and Benjamin Franklin Parkway on Cherry Street.)
c.1968. Alexander Calder (1898-1976).
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.