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          6. Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau

          French Royal Army officer and nobleman (–)

          Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau (1 July – 10 May ) was a French Royal Army officer and nobleman who played a critical role in the Franco-American victory at siege of Yorktown in during the American Revolutionary War.

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

          Military life

          Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur was born in Vendôme, in the province of Orléanais, and he was educated at the Jesuit college in Blois.

          After the death of his elder brother, he entered a cavalry regiment and served in Bohemia, Bavaria, and on the Rhine during the War of the Austrian Succession. By , he had attained the rank of colonel. He took part in the Siege of Maastricht and became governor of Vendôme in He distinguished himself in the Battle of Minorca on the outbreak of the Sev