USS Rochambeau
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USS Rochambeau (AP-63) was a transport ship that saw service in the United States Navy during World War II. She was the only U.S. Naval vessel to be named for the French nobleman, Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau (1725–1807), who commanded the French troops in Washington's army during the American Revolutionary War.
USS Rochambeau
USS Rochambeau - San Francisco, CA Oct, 5 1942
Ex-USS Rochambeau (AP-63) being operated for the WSA by the French Government as Marechal Joffre to transport U.S. troops from Europe to the States after the War. Note the extra life rafts along her starboard side
In Alexandria, Egypt, in 1951 with the rebuilt funnel
Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau
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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