Expédition Particulière was the codename given by the Kingdom of France for the plan to sail French land forces to North America to support the colonists against Britain in the American Revolutionary War. Numbering 5,500 troops, the expedition arrived in America on 11 July 1780, led by the Comte de Rochambeau.
Landing of a French auxiliary army in Newport, Rhode Island on 11 July 1780, under the command of Comte de Rochambeau
Siège de Yorktown by Auguste Couder, c.1836. Rochambeau and Washington giving their last orders before the battle.
Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau
Marshal Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau was a French nobleman and general whose army played a critical role in helping the United States defeat the British Army at Yorktown in 1781 during the American Revolutionary War. He was commander-in-chief of the French expeditionary force sent by France to help the American Continental Army fight against British forces.
Portrait by Charles Wilson Peale, 1782
Landing of a French auxiliary army in Newport, Rhode Island on 11 July 1780 under the command of the comte de Rochambeau. This image is one of 12 scenes from the American Revolution printed in Allgemeines historisches Taschenbuch by Daniel Nickolaus Chodowiecki, a well-known Polish engraver.
Bataille de Yorktown by Auguste Couder
Surrender of Lord Cornwallis by John Trumbull, depicting Cornwallis surrendering at Yorktown; the French troops of General Rochambeau are on the left and the American troops of Washington are on the right; oil on canvas, 1820
