Rochambeau's status as a commander and the name Rochambeau sounding like "rush on boys" and supposedly being used as a code word. Motto and coat of arms Notes References "Jean Baptiste Donatien De Vimeur Rochambeau." in Dictionary of American Biography (1936). online Kennett, Lee. The French Forces in America, 1780–1783 (Greenwood, 1977), Nager, Cody E. "The Fading Mirage Of Revolution: The French Expeditionary Force's Disillusionment With America, 1780–1782." The Historian 81#3 (2019), p. 426+. online Whitridge, Arnold. "Rochambeau And The American Revolution" History Today (May 1962), Vol. 12 Issue 5, pp 312–320. Tugdual de Langlais, L'armateur préféré de Beaumarchais Jean Peltier Dudoyer, de Nantes à l'Isle de France, Éd. Coiffard, 2015, 340 p. (). Jean-Baptiste-Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau, Memoirs of the Marshal Count de Rochambeau, Relative to the War of Independence of the United States, ed. and trans, by M. W. E. Wright (New York: The New York Times and Arno Press, 1971), External links Society of the Cincinnati American Revolution Institute France and the American Revolution at the John Carter Brown Library 1725 births 1807 deaths Vimeur, Jean-Baptiste-Donatien de French military personnel of the American Revolutionary War Marshals of France Military leaders of the French Revolutionary Wars People from Vendôme