Marshall, May 20, 2018 – The Fauquier Heritage and Preservation Foundation announces a talk by General West on Saturday, June 10, 2018, 3:00 PM at the Robert L. Sinclair Education Center, 4118 Winchester Road, Marshall, Virginia. General West will speak on the history of local military hero, Presley Neville O’Bannon, a first lieutenant in the United States Marine Corps, who is famous for his exploits in the First Barbary War (1801-1805). Lieutenant O’Bannon led the successful attack at the Battle of Derna in Libya on April 27, 1805, giving the Marines’ Hymn its line “to the shores of Tripoli” and became the first man to raise a United States flag over foreign soil in time of war. O’Bannon was born in Marshall, Fauquier County, in 1776. He is known as “the hero of Derna.”