The Marquis Louis-Joseph de Montcalm was the overall commander of the French forces in North America from 1756 until his death at the Plains of Abraham in 1759. Langis was often praised by his commanding officers. A fact worth noting and one which does us honor is that in this detachment, a captain and seven lieutenants of our regulars march under the orders of an ensign M. Montcalm's aide-de-camp, Captain Louis Antoine de Bougainville, wrote in his journal on July 4th, 1758, "This evening there departed, under orders of Sieur de Langy, a detachment of about, 150 men, 104 of them volunteers from our battalions, 25 Canadians, and a score of Indians. Langis never held a rank higher than an ensign, but at times he would command officers who held higher ranks than he did. While Langis led milice, there were also French regulars who volunteered to serve under him. The companies Langis commanded were ad-hoc, meaning they were assembled as needed for particular scouting missions or campaigns. His companies were integrated with Native American allies, and Langis and his men were known as effective scouts and skirmishers. Langis was skilled at implementing “petite guerre”, which in French means “little war” and in modern terminology would be known as guerrilla warfare. Langis was an ensign in the French marines and achieved success as a partisan officer who led ranger companies of French-Canadian milice (militia) during the French and Indian War (1754-1763). La Compagnie de Langis is named after Jean-Baptiste Levrault de Langis Montegron, commonly called Langis or Langy.
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