Legacy
He is commemorated by a 99-foot granite obelisk near the shoreline of Carlingford Lough in the Ross home village of Rostrevor, County Down in Northern Ireland, as well as by a monument in St Paul's Cathedral in London, England.
Neither Ross nor his immediate descendants were knighted or received a title of nobility. However, his descendants were given an augmentation of honour to the Ross armorial bearings (namely, a second crest in which an arm is seen grasping the stars and stripes on a broken staff) and the family name was changed to the victory title Ross-of-Bladensburg, which was granted to his widow.
In honour of the history of Washington, D.C., there is also a portrait of Ross in the Capitol's rotunda.
Read more about this topic: Robert Ross (British Army Officer)
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