General Comte de Rochambeau was a French hero in the American Revolution.
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Comte de Rochambeau's father- aka Joseph-Charles de Vimeur.
Jeanne Therese Telles d'Acosta
rochambeau was a general and de grasse was an admiral
Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette. Comte de Rochambeau. Comte de Grasse. Add to those well known, the 7,800 to 8,800 unnamed Frenchmen that Rochambeau had with him at Yorktown. Add also the crews of the 29 French ships in the Chesapeake under de Grasse.
The Siege of Yorktown, Battle of Yorktown, or Surrender of Yorktown in 1781 was a decisive victory by a combined assault of American forces led by General General George Washington and French forces led by the Comte de Rochambeau over a British Army commanded by Lieutenant General Lord Cornwallis.