Ebenezer Denny was elected as the first mayor of the City of Pittsburgh in 1816. Even before this honor, his life had been full of amazing adventures. Fighting alongside George Washington and many of the heroes of the Revolutionary War, he was given the honor of planting the American flag, after the British surrender at Yorktown. He served as a crew member on a privateer ship. He survived a loss by the American Army three times greater than Custer