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Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau, commanded the French army that landed in America and joined forces with the Americans in the seige of the British at Yorktown. A Lieutenant General, in theory he outranked George Washington, and never quite understood why the Americans failed to appreciate his superior talent, skill, experience, leadership, wisdom, humility and modesty.