![Item #2821 Rochambeau. [Excerpted from Galerie militaire, ou notices historiques […].]. François Babié de Bercenay, L. Beaumont.](https://foldvaribooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2821.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&v=1672164293)
Rochambeau. [Excerpted from Galerie militaire, ou notices historiques […].]
[Paris]: [Barba], 1804/5]. First edition. In later blue wrappers, shelfmark vignette to the front. In fine condition.
Entry on Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau (1725–1807) and his son Donatien-Marie-Joseph de Vimeur, vicomte de Rochambeau (1755–1813).
Jean-Baptiste was a French nobleman and general whose army played the decisive role in defeating the British army at Yorktown in 1781 during the American Revolutionary War. His son, Donatien-Marie-Joseph was also a French military commander, serves as an aide-de-camp to his father in the Revolutionary War, and later participated in an unsuccessful campaign to re-establish French rule in Martinique and Saint-Domingue. Excerpted from the 6th volume of the Galerie militaire, ou notices historiques (Barba, 1804).
The entry on the Rochambeaus, excerpted from Galerie militaire.
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