Divisional-General Donatien-Marie-Joseph de Vimeur, vicomte de Rochambeau was a French Army officer and colonial administrator who served in the American Revolutionary War and French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. He was the son of Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau.
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