Charles Michel de Langlade
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Charles Michel de Langlade (9 May 1729 at Michillimakinac– c.May, 1800 at Green Bay (La Baie-Verte)[1]) was a Great Lakes fur trader of [[Canadian[2]]] and Odawa heritage. His father was Augustin Langlade (in fact, Augustin Mouet Sieur de Langlade); his mother, Domitilde[3], was a sister of Odawa war chief Nissowaquet.
In 1752, Charles Langlade led the raid on Pickawillany, which paved the way for the French and Indian War. In 1755, he led a group from the Three Fires confederacy over Edward Braddock and George Washington at the Battle of Monongahela. He took part in the Battle of the Plains of Abraham, leading a group of Odawa warriors.
Later, during the American Revolutionary War, Langlade led Great Lakes Indians as an ally of the British commanders in Canada, and was promoted to captain in the Indian Department.
He later settled in Green Bay, and as the first permanent partially-European settler in what became Wisconsin, he is remembered as the "Father of the State." Langlade County, Wisconsin is named after him.[4]
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- ^ Dictionaire Généalogique Tanguay
- ^ Michillimakinac was in the Canadian Pays d'en haut; therefore he was from Canadian heritage
- ^ Dictionaire Généalogique Tanguay
- ^ Langlade, Charles Michel 1729 - 1801
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