Jean Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, Count de Rochambeau

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Marshal of France. Sent by the French king to the aid of General Washington, he rendered important services in the American Revolution. During the French Revolution he commanded the army of the north, but when the Jacobins became supreme, he was forced to leave France. Napoleon granted him a pension, and Jean Baptiste spent his last years preparing his memoirs.

Born

• 1725 at Vendome, France

Died

• 1807 at Thoré, France