Examples of Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau in the following topics:
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- Prior to France's official involvement, King Louis XVI and the French Foreign Minister Charles Gravier, the comte de Vergennes, authorized merchants to covertly sell gunpowder and ammunition to the Patriots.
- Examples
of these volunteers include Pierre Charles L’Enfant and Gilbert du Motier,
Marquis de Lafayette.
- Under
François-Joseph
Paul, Marquis de Grasse Tilly, comte de Grasse, the French defeated a British fleet at the Battle of the Chesapeake in 1781, ensuring the success of allied ground forces in the Siege of Yorktown, the last major land battle of the Revolutionary War.
- In 1780,
Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau,
was appointed commander-in-chief of the French Expeditionary Force.
- The comte de Rochambeau served as commander-in-chief of the French Expeditionary Force, which supported the Continental Army.