"...the current ‘Napoleon’ buzz makes this the ideal time to recall the story of a spectacularly unlucky British general who had an unfortunate encounter with the Little Corporal — and with the Father of Our Country as well."
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O’Hara then tried to get in his own parting dig against the Americans. When it came time to formally surrender his sword, he handed it to the Comte de Rochambeau. But the French commander deferred to General George Washington, who then made O’Hara hand it over to General Benjamin Lincoln.
On Sept. 8, 1793, a young, untested French officer arrived and was placed in command of the Revolutionary artillery. He devised a plan that led to the capture of a key hill, giving his guns command of the port city. There was a series of back-and-forth fighting. In the final round, O’Hara was wounded again. And once again, he was forced to surrender to the commander of the forces who inflicted defeat.
O’Hara spent two years in a Paris prison (where he was threatened with a date with Madame Guillotine) until he was finally exchanged for the Comte de Rochambeau, the same officer he had tried to surrender to at Yorktown 14 years earlier.
Really? Well, I'd say -NO! Believe it or not, sometimes some people have the same name but still are not the same person. In this case, it's the son ... not comte, but vicomte!
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donatien_de_Rochambeau
En réalité, Donatien de Rochambeau a été fait prisonnier par les Anglais et il sera échangé durant l'été 1795 grâce à l'entremise de Christophe Potter, contre le général anglais O'Hara que Rochambeau père avait vaincu lors du siège de Yorktown et qui se trouvait à la suite de la reprise de Toulon, emprisonné à Paris au Luxembourg puis à Chantilly