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Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau

1725 - 1807

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Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau (1 July 1725 – 10 May 1807) was a French Royal Army officer who played a critical role in the American victory at the siege of Yorktown in 1781 during the American Revolutionary War. He was commander-in-chief of the Expédition Particulière, the French expeditionary force sent to North America during the conflict. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau is the 881st most popular military personnel (up from 930th in 2019), the 2,332nd most popular biography from France (up from 2,392nd in 2019) and the 89th most popular French Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau ranks 881 out of 2,058. Before him are Jang Bogo, Prince Charles of Hesse-Kassel, Artabazos I of Phrygia, Jukums Vācietis, Adelbert Schulz, and Karl Lennart Oesch. After him are Yekaterina Budanova, Marco Antonio Bragadin, Ian Hamilton, Winrich von Kniprode, Joseph E. Johnston, and François Étienne de Kellermann.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1725, Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau ranks 16. Before him are Henry Benedict Stuart, Pyotr Rumyantsev, Duke Louis of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Louis Jean Marie de Bourbon, Duke of Penthièvre, Philipp Ludwig Statius Müller, and John Newton. After him are Franz Moritz von Lacy, Maria Teresa Cybo-Malaspina, Duchess of Massa, Guillaume Le Gentil, Arthur Guinness, Ahmad Shah Bahadur, and Countess Palatine Christiane Henriette of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld. Among people deceased in 1807, Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau ranks 14. Before him are Osman Pazvantoğlu, Duchess Anna Amalia of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Maria, Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh, John Newton, Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm, and Nikolai Rezanov. After him are Jacob Philipp Hackert, Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst, Johannes Nikolaus Tetens, Jeremias Benjamin Richter, Jean-François Rewbell, and Louis Auguste Le Tonnelier de Breteuil.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau ranks 2,332 out of 6,770. Before him are Jean-Baptiste Oudry (1686), Jean-Loup Chrétien (1938), Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt (1960), Eremburga of Maine (1096), Jacques Lemercier (1585), and Jacques Deray (1929). After him are Quatremère de Quincy (1755), Eugène Fromentin (1820), Jan Asselijn (1610), Marc Augé (1935), Octave Lapize (1887), and Jean-Jacques Beineix (1946).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In France

Among military personnels born in France, Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau ranks 89. Before him are Hans von Salmuth (1888), Barthélemy Catherine Joubert (1769), William Iron Arm (1010), Thomas Robert Bugeaud (1784), Marcellin Marbot (1782), and Louis-Joseph de Montcalm (1712). After him are François Étienne de Kellermann (1770), Charles Bonaventure de Longueval, 2nd Count of Bucquoy (1571), Dominique Vandamme (1770), Adolphe Marbot (1781), Aimable Pélissier (1794), and Jacques Doriot (1898).

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