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To: Woody_Nickels who wrote (454438)11/9/2025 8:44:20 PM
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An indirect relative of mine. Charles Michel de Langlade.
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Charles Michel de Langlade was a badass. The métis son of a French trader and an Ottawa woman, it was as if he was born to take the war trail in the service of both of his peoples. That trail was dark and brutal, marked by atrocity and counter atrocity. Langlade first came to notice with a piece of gangsterism that any Mafioso or cartel boss would recognize.

When an aggressive young Virginia militia colonel named George Washington inadvertently touched off the world war Americans know as the French and Indian War, Langlade cheerfully encouraged his Ottawa friends to join the fray on behalf of the French, traveling hundreds of miles for the prospect of scalps, loot and glory. They got a surfeit of all three on July 9, 1755, when Langlade helped organize the ambush that destroyed General Edward Braddock’s army in the woods near Fort Duquesne (now Pittsburg, PA). It was a beautiful ambush — and a disastrous defeat for the British, costing nearly 500 killed and nearly 400 wounded. The French and Indians lost probably less than 30 killed.

Langlade is now mostly forgotten. Such are the whims of history.
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