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Donatien-Marie-Joseph de Vimeur, vicomte de Rochambeau (1755-1813) French General. In 1802, he was appointed to lead an expeditionary force against Saint-Domingue after General Leclerc's death. Historians of the Haitian Revolution credit his brutal tactics for uniting black and mulatto soldiers against the French. After Rochambeau surrendered to the rebel general Dessalines in November 1803, the former French colony declared its independence as Haiti, the second independent state in the Americas. On his way home, Rochambeau was captured by the English and returned to England as a prisoner on parole, where he remained interned for almost nine years. (Eleventh Edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica, Cambridge University Press, 1911)