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From the moment we began to correspond with one another, Rochambeau wrote in his memoirs,
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I never ceased to enjoy the soundness of his judgment and the amenity of his style in a very long correspondence, which is likely not to end before the death of one of us.
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March of the Huron, could draw from life his well-known description of him, ending:
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Northern America, from Boston to Charleston, is a great book every page of which tells his praise. [33] Count de Ségur says that he apprehended his expectations could not be equalled by reality, but they were.
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His exterior almost told his story. Simplicity, grandeur, dignity, calm, kindness, firmness shone in his physiognomy as well as in his character. He was of a noble and high stature, his expression was gentle and kindly, his smile pleasing, his manners simple without familiarity.... All in him announced the hero of a republic.
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I have seen Washington, says Abbé Robin,
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lined the streets from Rochambeau's house (the fine Vernon house, still in existence[34]) to the harbor; the roar and smoke of the guns rose in honor of the
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Washington saw Destouches's fleet sail for its Southern expedition and wished it Godspeed; and after a six days' stay, enlivened by
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he left on the 13th.
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I can say, we read in Closen's journal,
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Summing up his impression, he adds:
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All in him betokens a great man with an excellent heart. Enough good will never be said of him.
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of the same family as the future member of the
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Directoire, and who was to replace Ternay. With him was Viscount Rochambeau, bringing to his father the unwelcome news that no second division was to be expected.
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My son has returned very solitary, was the only remonstrance the general sent to the minister. But the young colonel was able to give, at the same time, news of great importance. A new fleet under Count de Grasse had been got together, and at the time of the _Concorde's_ departure had just sailed for the West Indies, so that a temporary domination of the sea might become a possibility.
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Nothing without naval supremacy,
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wrote Vergennes to La Luzerne, and of the already disquieting state of our finances, a new
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was granted to the Americans. Some funds had already been sent to Rochambeau, one million and a half in February, with a letter of Necker saying:
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Be assured, sir, that all that will be asked from the Finance Department for your army will be made ready on the instant.