At the 1781 Siege of Yorktown, which French general led the allied French ground forces?

At the 1781 Siege of Yorktown, Comte de Rochambeau led the allied French ground forces supporting George Washington’s army.

Rochambeau was Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau, a lieutenant general in the French Army. He commanded the French expeditionary force sent to North America in 1780 after France formally allied with the American revolutionaries.

In 1781, Rochambeau and Washington moved their armies south from the New York region toward Virginia. Their campaign depended on French naval cooperation: Admiral Comte de Grasse brought a fleet to the Chesapeake Bay, blocking British relief by sea. French and American forces then surrounded the British army commanded by Charles Cornwallis at Yorktown.

Cornwallis surrendered on October 19, 1781. The victory did not immediately end the war, but it became the decisive military event that led Britain toward peace negotiations. Rochambeau commanded the French land forces, while de Grasse commanded the crucial French fleet.