Rochambeau

Jean Baptiste Dontien de Vimeur, Compte de Rochambeau, was on the verge of retirement when a courier from Versailles ordered him to report to the King at once. That interview was to have a profound effect upon American history: Rochambeau’s victory at Yorktown administered the coup de grace to the British and made America an independent nation. Arnold Whitridge’s Rochambeau is a deeply engrossing biography of a brae and brilliant soldier whose contribution to the American Revolutionary War and the founding of America has hitherto been neglected. It is also a chronicle of events, strategies…