MILITARY PERSONNEL

Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau

1725 - 1807

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Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau (1 July 1725 – 10 May 1807) was a French Royal Army officer and nobleman who played a critical role in the Franco-American victory at siege of Yorktown in 1781 during the American Revolutionary War. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau has received more than 1,247,677 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau is the 929th most popular military personnel (down from 800th in 2019), the 2,392nd most popular biography from France (down from 2,130th in 2019) and the 93rd most popular French Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau ranks 929 out of 2,058. Before him are Wolfgang Lotz, Georges Guynemer, Alexander von Linsingen, Burkhard Christoph von Münnich, Prince Franz of Bavaria, and Joachim Schepke. After him are Eugen Meindl, Dominique Vandamme, Wilhelm Souchon, Philip Sheridan, Karl Ernst, and Teruo Nakamura.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1725, Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau ranks 14. Before him are Ludovico Manin, Louis Jean Marie de Bourbon, Duke of Penthièvre, Ahilyabai Holkar, Henry Benedict Stuart, Pyotr Rumyantsev, and John Newton. After him are Philipp Ludwig Statius Müller, George Mason, Franz Moritz von Lacy, Arthur Guinness, Guillaume Le Gentil, and Ahmad Shah Bahadur. Among people deceased in 1807, Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau ranks 15. Before him are Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm, George Atwood, John Newton, Johannes Nikolaus Tetens, Jacob Philipp Hackert, and Nikolai Rezanov. After him are Louis Auguste Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, Alexander Ypsilantis, Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst, Franciszek Smuglewicz, Sophie von La Roche, and Jeremias Benjamin Richter.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau ranks 2,392 out of 6,770. Before him are Georges Guynemer (1894), Matilda of Boulogne (1103), Sébastien Loeb (1974), Pierre Monteux (1875), Pierre Pflimlin (1907), and Juliette Mayniel (1936). After him are Dominique Vandamme (1770), Claude Bolling (1930), Jules Perrot (1810), Marcel Dalio (1899), Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest (1784), and Paul Féval, père (1816).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In France

Among military personnels born in France, Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau ranks 93. Before him are Duke Alexander of Württemberg (1771), Thomas Robert Bugeaud (1784), Hans von Salmuth (1888), Claude Alexandre de Bonneval (1675), Charles Bonaventure de Longueval, 2nd Count of Bucquoy (1571), and Georges Guynemer (1894). After him are Dominique Vandamme (1770), Pierre Dupont de l'Étang (1765), Marcellin Marbot (1782), Jean-Étienne Championnet (1762), Jacques Doriot (1898), and Adolphe Marbot (1781).

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