Charles Michel de Langlade
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Charles Michel de Langlade (1729–c. 1800) was a Great Lakes fur-trader of French and Odawa heritage, the son of Augustin Langlade. 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. Latter, 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 would later settle in Green Bay, and as the first permanent partially-European settler in what would become Wisconsin, he is remembered as the "Father of the State." Langlade County, Wisconsin is named after him.
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