Rochambeau

[ raw-shahn-boh ]

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noun

Jean Bap·tiste Do·na·tien de Vi·meur [zhah, n, b, a, -, teest, daw-n, a, -, syan, d, uh, vee-, mœr], Count de, 1725–1807, French general: marshal of France 1791–1807; commander of the French army in the American Revolution.

Rochambeau moved south and reached the Delaware before the British grasped the Yankee trick.

De Grasse now had orders to act in concert with Washington and Rochambeau, against the common enemy.

Gen. Rochambeau is said to have worn body armor at the siege of Yorktown.

On the other wing of the scene floated the flags of Washington and Rochambeau.

The expedition of Rochambeau consisted of five thousand men.

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