Word: rochambeau
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lieutenant general of the naval army" (equivalent to rear admiral). De Grasse, who stood 6 ft. 2 in. and looked 6 ft. 6 in. on days of battle, had prepared for his finest hour by getting captured by the British when he was 25. From Washington, Lafayette and Rochambeau went a stream of messages to De Grasse, urging him to assert Franco-American naval supremacy somewhere along the coast. Washington favored New York, to clip General Clinton; Rochambeau favored the Chesapeake, to complete the investment of Cornwallis at Yorktown...
...Anyone who has threescore years and ten resents it," growled Edward, Duke of Windsor, vetoing cake and candles for his 70th birthday dinner at Maxim's. But somehow he seemed anything but resentful. At an 18th century costume ball for 600 given by Countess Sheila de Rochambeau at her chateau outside Paris, the duke in lace jabot and Royal Stewart tartan kilt danced the night away with his duchess, an enchantress ablaze in shimmering red cloak and white feathered wig designed by Yves St. Laurent...