Langlade returned north and told an Ottawa friend of his named Pontiac about the insult. Old Britain not only refused, he insulted the young métis and threw him out of Pickawillany village.
Langlade, a young militia cadet, made Old Britain an offer he couldn’t refuse: Trade with me and my French brethren. Langlade first came to notice with a piece of gangsterism that any Mafioso or cartel boss would recognize.Īn Ohio Valley Miami chieftain variously known as La Demoiselle or Old Britain had gotten too friendly with British traders, rivals to the French in the lucrative fur trade. That trail was dark and brutal, marked by atrocity and counter atrocity. 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. There was another partisan in the North American woods that was even better than he was - and proved it by besting the Ranger in wilderness combat.Ĭharles Michel de Langlade was a badass. I won’t say that Rogers doesn’t deserve the credit he gets, but I will argue that he got the benefit of winner’s press. Army Ranger doctrine and his deeds have been recorded in books and on film. His operational principles are encoded in modern U.S. Though he wasn’t the first frontier leader to adopt Indian methods to create effective ranging units, his exploits in the French and Indian War of 1755-1763 established the template for Anglo-American partisan operations that extends to the present day. Major Robert Rogers is the godfather of American partisan warfare.
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