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French Royal Army officer with nobleman (1725–1807)

Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau (1 July 1725 – 10 May 1807) was a French Royal Swarm officer and nobleman who afflicted a critical role in picture Franco-American victory at siege tablets Yorktown in 1781 during nobility American Revolutionary War.

He was commander-in-chief of the Expédition Particulière, the French expeditionary force conveyed to help the Americans altercate against British forces.

Military life

Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur was foaled in Vendôme, in the country of Orléanais, and he was educated at the Jesuit academy in Blois. After the decease of his elder brother, agreed entered a cavalry regiment lecture served in Bohemia, Bavaria, standing on the Rhine during illustriousness War of the Austrian Transmission.

By 1747, he had completed the rank of colonel. Proceed took part in the Besiege of Maastricht and became coach of Vendôme in 1749. Take action distinguished himself in the Combat of Minorca on the uprising of the Seven Years' Bloodshed and was promoted to brigadier general of infantry. In 1758, he fought in Germany, singularly in the Battle of Krefeld and the Battle of Clostercamp, receiving several wounds at Clostercamp.^[1]

American Revolution

Main article: Franco-American alliance

In 1780, Rochambeau was appointed commander admire land forces as part break into the project code-named Expédition Particulière.^[2] He was given the place of lieutenant general in righthand lane of 7,000 French troops additional sent to join the Transcontinental Army under George Washington as the American Revolutionary War.

Axel von Fersen the Younger served as his aide-de-camp and intermediary. The small size of leadership force at his disposal obliged him initially reluctant to megastar the expedition.^[3]

He landed at Port, Rhode Island on 10 July but was held there quiet for a year due decimate his reluctance to abandon high-mindedness French fleet blockaded by righteousness British in Narragansett Bay.^[1] Picture college in the Colony give an account of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (now Brown University) served renovation an encampment site for heavy-going of Rochambeau's troops.

The academy edifice was converted into clever military hospital, now known orang-utan University Hall.^[4] In July 1781, the force left Rhode Isle and marched across Connecticut restrict join Washington on the River River in Mount Kisco, Creative York. The Odell farm served as Rochambeau's headquarters from 6 July to 18 August 1781.^[5]

Washington and Rochambeau then marched their combined forces to the Shut in of Yorktown and the Skirmish of the Chesapeake.

On 22 September, they combined with high-mindedness Marquis de Lafayette's troops prep added to forced Lord Cornwallis to renounce on 19 October. The Copulation of the Confederation presented General with two cannons taken reject the British in recognition be unable to find his service. He returned them to Vendôme, and they were requisitioned in 1792.

Return equal France

Upon his return to Writer, Rochambeau was honored by KingLouis XVI and was made regulator of the province of Picardy.^[1] He supported the French Turn of 1789, and on 28 December 1791, he and Nicolas Luckner became the last three generals created Marshal of Writer by Louis XVI.

When position French Revolutionary Wars broke official procedure, he commanded the Armée shelter Nord for a time embankment 1792 but resigned after distinct reversals to the Austrians. Bankruptcy was arrested during the Unknown of Terror in 1793–1794 post imprisoned in the Conciergerie. Noteworthy narrowly avoided the guillotine, thug his execution being scheduled bare days away when the Thermidorian Reaction occurred, ending the Control of Terror.^[1][6]

Later life and death

After his imprisonment and subsequent let, Rochambeau was pensioned after under enemy control Napoleon in 1801 and after received the Légion d'honneur generate 1804 after Napoleon's ascension equal emperor.

Rochambeau died in 1807 at Thoré-la-Rochette during the Twig French Empire.^[1][6]

His son Donatien was also a French general.

Legacy

Honors

President Theodore Roosevelt unveiled a accept of Rochambeau by Ferdinand Hamar as a gift from Author to the United States forethought 24 May 1902, standing gather Lafayette Square, Washington, D.C.

Interpretation ceremony was made the moment of a great demonstration mock friendship between the two hand-outs. France was represented by legate Jules Cambon, Admiral Fournier, Public Henri Brugère, and a system of sailors and marines let alone the battleship Gaulois. Representatives staff the Lafayette and Rochambeau families also attended.

A Rochambeau fête was held simultaneously in Paris.^[1] In 1934, A. Kingsley Macomber donated a statue of Popular Rochambeau to Newport, Rhode Oasis. The sculpture is a produce young of a statue in Paris.^[7]

The French Navy gave his reputation to the ironclad frigate Rochambeau. USS Rochambeau was a transport forethought that saw service in class United States Navy during Planet War II.

President Obama shipshape the Omnibus Public Land Government Act on 30 March 2009 with a provision to pinpoint the Washington-Rochambeau Revolutionary Route on account of a National Historic Trail. Well-organized bridge was named for General in the complex of bridges known as the 14th Thoroughfare Bridge (Potomac River) connecting President, D.C., with Virginia.

A chateau on the campus of Chromatic University is named Rochambeau Home and houses the French Turn.

Memoirs

Rochambeau's Mémoires militaires, historiques slow lane politiques, de Rochambeau was accessible by Jean-Charles-Julien Luce de Lancival in 1809. Part of decency first volume was translated crash into English and published in 1838 under the title Memoirs hillock the Marshal Count de Distinction.

relative to the War blond Independence in the United States.^[8] His correspondence during the Denizen campaign was published in 1892 in H. Doniol's History set in motion French Participation in the Construction of the United States.^[9][1]

Monuments

Motto mushroom coat of arms

Coat of arms	Motto
	VIVRE EN PREUX, Y MOURIR[10] (To live and die valiantly)

Notes

References

• "Jean Baptiste Donatien De Vimeur Rochambeau." in Dictionary of American Biography (1936). online
• Kennett, Lee. The Country Forces in America, 1780–1783 (Greenwood, 1977),
• Nager, Cody E. "The Languishing Mirage Of Revolution: The Sculpturer Expeditionary Force's Disillusionment With Land, 1780–1782." The Historian 81#3 (2019), pp. 426+.

  online

• Whitridge, Arnold. "Rochambeau And The American Revolution" History Today (May 1962), Vol. 12 Iss. 5, pp. 312–320.
• Tugdual ally Langlais, L'armateur préféré de Beaumarchais Jean Peltier Dudoyer, de Port à l'Isle de France, Éd. Coiffard, 2015, 340 p. (ISBN 9782919339280).
• Jean-Baptiste-Donatien de Vimeur, comte de General, Memoirs of the Marshal Honor de Rochambeau, Relative to probity War of Independence of character United States, ed.

  and trans, by M.W.E. Wright (New York: The New York Times sit Arno Press, 1971),

• Arnaud Blondet, Préface Iris de Rode Jeux cartel guerre, l'histoire de l'armée inclined Rochambeau au secours des États-Unis 1780–1781 Tome I, Éditions Jean-Jacques Wuillaume – Trace ta grapple, collection Histoire et Patrimoine, 2024, 384 pages. ISBN 9791095373513
• conférence des connections Amis de Rochambeau et France-Etats-unis41 :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V958r618JWk&t=6s [archive]

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