Charles Michel Mouet de Langlade (9 May 1729 – after 26 July 1801)[3] was a Great Lakes fur trader and war chief who was important in protecting French territory in North America.

As a child, Langlade grew up with Ottawa as his first language and identified with his mother's culture; he was also educated in French by Jesuit missionaries at the fort.

In the winter of 1751–1752, Langlade began assembling a war party of Odawa, Potawatomi, and Ojibwe warriors who traveled to Pickawillany for a raid.

[6] In 1755, he led a group from the Three Fires confederacy in the defense of Fort Duquesne (later Pittsburgh), where the French and their Indian allies triumphed over the British Edward Braddock and colonist George Washington at the Battle of the Monongahela.

Following the war and victory of Great Britain, Langlade transferred his allegiance to that country after it took control of French areas east of the Mississippi River.

At the end of that war, Langlade returned to his home at Green Bay, then considered to be in the United States' Northwest Territory.