First Honors to the Stars and Stripes Plaque
Details:
On a wall overlooking the harbor.
PlaqueAn inscribed stone attached to the wall.
The memorial remembers that France was the first nation to render honors to the flag of the United States of America. This took place on February 14, 1778 in the bay of Quiberon (off the coast near Port Haliguen by the French squadron commanded by Admiral La Motte Piquet). A painting on this event hangs at the US Naval Academy in Annapolis. the lithograph of an oil painting by Edward Moran depicts Captain John Paul Jones's ship USS Ranger in Quiberon Bay, France, receiving the first official salute from the French fleet.
Monument Text:
PORT HALIGUEN
Le 14 Février 1778
La FRANCE représentée par
L ' escadre de la Motte piquet
fut la première nation
a rendre les honneurs
au pavillon des U.S.A.
Translation:
PORT HALIGUEN February 14, 1778 FRANCE, represented by the La Motte-Picquet squadron, was the first nation to render honors to the flag of the U.S.A.
Commemorates:
People:
Units:
U.S.S. Ranger
United States Navy
Wars:
American Revolutionary War
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