Definition of Jean Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur

1. Noun. French general who commanded French troops in the American Revolution, notably at Yorktown (1725-1807).

Exact synonyms: Comte De Rochambeau, Rochambeau
Generic synonyms: Full General, General

Lexicographical Neighbors of Jean Baptiste Donatien De Vimeur

Jeameses
Jean
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin
Jean-Claude Duvalier
Jean-Frederic Joliot
Jean-Frederic Joliot-Curie
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jean-Louis Lebris de Kerouac
Jean-Paul Sartre
Jean-Philippe Rameau
Jean Anouilh
Jean Antoine Watteau
Jean Arp
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
Jean Baptiste Camille Corot
Jean Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur (current term)
Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier
Jean Baptiste Lully
Jean Baptiste Racine
Jean Baptiste de Lamarck
Jean Bernard Leon Foucault
Jean Bernoulli
Jean Caulvin
Jean Cauvin
Jean Chauvin
Jean Cocteau
Jean Edouard Vuillard
Jean Francois Champollion
Jean Francois Millet
Jean Genet

Literary usage of Jean Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. With Americans of Past and Present Days by Jean Jules Jusserand (1916)
"Lieutenant-General Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, Comte de Rochambeau, aged then fifty- five, and Washington's senior by seven years, was in his house, ..."

2. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero, Ernest Alfred Benians (1911)
"... Jean-Baptiste-Donatien de Vimeur, Count of, Marshal of France, vi 453; commands Army of the North, vni 222, ..."

3. Bulletin of the New York Public Library by New York Public Library (1899)
"Letter : Rochambeau (Jean Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur de), Count. Paris, Feb. 3, 1789. To . Forwards a letter from the officer in charge at the castle of ..."

4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"... Jean Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, COMTE DE, French marshal: b. Vendôme, 1 July 1725; d. Thoré, 10 May 1807. He was the son of the governor of his native ..."

5. Select documents illustrative of the history of the French Revolution: the by Leopold George Wickham Legg (1905)
"Rochambeau (Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, Comte de), b. 1725, served in all the wars from 1740 to 1792, marshal of France 1791, arrested, released after ..."

6. Bulletin of the New York Public Library by New York Public Library (1898)
"3088 Portrait : Rochambeau (Jean Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur de), Count. Three-quarters length; directed slightly to the right, ..."

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