Rochambeau Comte de
Ro·cham·beau
(rō′shăm-bō′, -shäN-), Comte de Title of Jean Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur. 1725-1807. French army officer who commanded French forces in the American Revolution, most notably in the defeat of the British at Yorktown (1781).
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