The Siege of Yorktown, aka the Battle of Yorktown, the Surrender at Yorktown, German Battle or the Siege of Little York. Rochambeau and Washington giving their last orders before the battle. Marshal Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau, 1725 - 1807. French nobleman and general during the American Revolution. General George Washington, 1732 - 1799. American politician and soldier who served as the first President of the United States. From Hutchinson's History of the Nations, published 1915.