Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau

Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur de Rochambeau
Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur de Rochambeau
	Portrait by Charles Wilson Peale, 1782
Born	1 July 1725; Vendôme, Orléanais, France
Died	30 May 1807 (aged 81); Thoré, Loir-et-Cher, France
Allegiance	Kingdom of France; Kingdom of the French
Service/branch	French Army
Years of service	1742–1792
Rank	Marshal of France
Battles/wars	War of the Austrian Succession Siege of Maastricht (1748); Seven Years' War Battle of Minorca (1756); Battle of Krefeld; Battle of Corbach; Battle of Kloster Kampen; American Revolutionary War Yorktown campaign Washington–Rochambeau Revolutionary Route; Battle of the Chesapeake; Siege of Yorktown; ; French Revolutionary Wars War of the First Coalition;
Awards	Order of the Holy Spirit; Order of Saint Louis; Society of the Cincinnati
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Marshal Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau (1 July 1725 – 10 May 1807) 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.

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