Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau was a French Royal Army officer who played a critical role in the American victory at the siege of Yorktown in 1781 during the American Revolution
Portrait by Charles Willson Peale, 1782
Bataille de Yorktown by Auguste Couder; Rochambeau stands at the center of the painting, with Washington beside him
US postage stamp, 1931 issue, honoring Rochambeau, George Washington, and François Joseph Paul de Grasse, commemorating 150th anniversary of the victory at Yorktown, 1781
Jeanne Therese Tilles D'Acosta, Madame la Marquise de Rochambeau
Expédition Particulière
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The Special Expedition was an expeditionary force deployed by France to North America to support the United States against Great Britain during the American Revolutionary War. Arriving at Newport, Rho
Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau
…played a critical role in the American victory at the siege of Yorktown in 1781 during the American Revolutionary War. He was commander-in-chief of the Expédition Particulière, the French expeditionary force sent to North America during the conflict. He worked closely and well with George Washington, commander-in-chief of the…
Landing of a French auxiliary army in Newport, Rhode Island on 11 July 1780, under the command of Comte de Rochambeau