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ROCHAMBEAU Signed Document

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Revolutionary War French General Rochambeau Signed Document

JEAN-BAPTIS COMTE de ROCHAMBEAU, French Marshal who Commanded French Troops in the American Revolution.
Manuscript Document Signed, "de Vimeur Rochambeau," boldly written entirely in his hand, in French, on watermarked fine-laid period paper, measuring 8"x 6", Choice Very Fine. This document appears to be a transaction of some type, possibly a bill of sale which mentions Paris and year 1790. As it is hard for us to fully and properly translate it is sold "as is" as a document with his magnificent 3.5" long vivid brown signature. The 5th edition of the Sanders Autograph Price Guide lists a Document or Letter Signed by General Rochambeau at $2,500.

Count Rochambeau (Jean Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, Comte de Rochambeau) (1725–1807), was a French military officer who took part in the wars of King Louis XV, and had been promoted to Lt. General by 1780, when King Louis XVI sent him, with 6,000 regular troops, to aid General George Washington in the Revolutionary War. He landed in Newport, RI, and remained there a year because the French fleet was blockaded off Narragansett. In July, 1781, he joined Washington on the Hudson River and the two armies marched south against General Cornwallis. The result was the Yorktown campaign, which ended the war when Cornwallis' army was trapped on the peninsula. In the French Revolution, Rochambeau was made a Marshal in 1791 and commanded the Northern Army, but resigned in 1792. He was imprisoned during the Terror and barely escaped execution. Napoleon restored him to his rank. His memoirs of the American Revolution were published in English in 1838.

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