Rochambeau
Newport, United States
<center><b>[ <i>Left Marker</i> : ]</b></center>On June eighteenth, 1781, General Rochambeau left Newport with his army to join the American forces on the Hudson, and on August nineteenth, 1781, the combined armies under command of General Washington began their victorious march to Yorktown.<center>* * *<br>This tablet presented by<br>Forsyth – Wickes<br><br><b>[ <i>Right & Back Markers</i> : ]</b></center>To Jean Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur Count de Rochambeau Marshal of France 1725 – 1807, Commander-in-Chief of the French Army at the siege of Yorktown – October 6th, 1781<center><br>Presented to the City of Newport by<br>Kingsley Macomber – Paris, France<br>Dedicated July 13th, 1934<br>Mortimer A. Sullivan – Mayor City of Newport<br>Willing Spencer – Chairman, Dedication Committee<br>Rededicated on this site July 4th, 1940<br>Hon. Perry Belmont – Chairman</center>