Armand Louis de Gontaut, duc de Lauzun, later duc de Biron, and usually referred to by historians of the French Revolution simply as Biron was a French soldier and politician, known for the part he played in the American War of Independence and the French Revolutionary Wars. In 1773, he was Grand second warden of Grand Orient de France.

Louis-Philippe de Rigaud, Marquis de Vaudreuil was second in command of the French squadron off America during the American Revolutionary War.