Charles Michel de Langlade
Charles Michel de Langlade was a Great Lakes fur-trader of French and Odawa heritage. He led a a group of Wisconsin Indians of several nations to victory over Edward Braddock and George Washington at the Battle of Monongahela during the French and Indian War. 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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