French general who commanded French troops in the American Revolution, notably at Yorktown (1725-1807)

Usage examples of rochambeau.

Whatever the size of the armies of Washington and Rochambeau, Adams wrote emphatically, victory in America and an end to the war there would never come so long as the British were masters of the sea.

While the army of Rochambeau had been sent to aid Washington, French warships had sailed not for the United States, as expected, but for the West Indies.

You have been told again and again that except for the France of Rochambeau the War of Independence would probably have failed and that the colonies would have remained English colonies.

Somebody pushed Gus de Rochambeau and he skidded past me over the beer and piss and put his hand through a window.

Should I be able to get out in tolerable time and any extraordinary delays attend the sailing of the vessel I shall certainly do myself the honor of waiting on his Excy Count Rochambeau at his Head quarters and assuring him in person of my high respect and esteem for him -- an object of which I have never lost sight.

On June 13, Rochambeau disclosed that the comte de Grasse, admiral of the French West Indies fleet, would arrive in American waters before summer’.