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- Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau
Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau (1 July 1725 – 10 May 1807) was a French Royal Army officer who played a critical role in the Franco-American victory at the siege of Yorktown in 1781 during the American Revolutionary War
- Rochambeau - George Washingtons Mount Vernon
Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau was a military officer who commanded the French expeditionary force sent in 1780 to assist in the United States’ rebellion against Great Britain He commanded all French forces at the Siege of Yorktown and retired after fifty years of service as a Maréchal de France
- Rochambeau - American Battlefield Trust
Born in 1725, Rochambeau first saw combat during the War of the Austrian Succession (1740-48) and was wounded in the Battle of Lauffeld Rochambeau gained such a distinguished record, he was promoted to colonel in 1747 and given command of a regiment at age 22
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- Comte de Rochambeau - Yorktown Battlefield Part of Colonial . . .
Rochambeau, a veteran of 14 sieges in Europe, provided valuable expertise in the conducting of the siege at Yorktown The success at Yorktown was very much a result of this expertise and his leadership skills Rochambeau returned to France a hero and resumed his military duties He remained politically neutral during the French Revolution
- Comte de Rochambeau (1725 – 1807) gt; U. S. Army Europe and . . .
In 1780, Rochambeau was appointed commander of land forces as part of the project code-named Expédition Particulière He was given the rank of lieutenant general in command of 7,000
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Served in French army in War of Austrian Succession, Seven Years War, in American Revolution sent in 1780, in command of French troops to support Washington's army, at siege of Yorktown, VA 1781, leading to Cornwallis' capitulation Commanded Army of the North early in French Revolutionary Wars, imprisoned during French Reign of Terror
- The American Revolution
The Comte de Rochambeau was the commander of all French forces in America during the War for Independence His most important contribution came during the Yorktown Campaign, in which he collaborated with George Washington to force the surrender of a major British army under Charles Cornwallis
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