Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau, French general (died 1807)

Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau

French Royal Army officer (1725–1807)

Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau 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. He was commander-in-chief of the Expédition Particulière, the…