NOUN
- French general who commanded French troops in the American Revolution, notably at Yorktown (1725-1807)
How To Use Rochambeau In A Sentence
- The comte de Rochambeau had already begun planning for a siege at Yorktown when he requested assistance from the commander of the French fleet in the Caribbean.
- ONE day, however, something would have to be done, and, in order to be ready, Rochambeau kept his army busy with manuvres, military exercises, sham warfare (le simulacre de la petite guerre), and the building of fortifications. Rochambeau and the French in America. I. From Unpublished Documents. V
- The Chief, with Count Rochambeau on his left, unbonneted, walked through.
- For that we can thank the fortitude of American forces under George Washington, the siegecraft of French troops of Gen. Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, the count of Rochambeau - and the relentless bloodthirstiness of female Anopheles quadrimaculatus mosquitoes. Malarial mosquitoes helped defeat British in battle that ended Revolutionary War
