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About Charlotte de Berry

In 1720, aboard the captured French merchantman La Concorde, renamed The Revenge, Charlotte de Berry reportedly ordered her crew to cut down the ship’s mainmast with axes during a storm off the Cape Verde Islands, sacrificing stability to avoid foundering and saving thirty lives. Her memoir recounts not just plunder but meticulous navigation logs, barter negotiations with West African coastal traders for gunpowder and ivory, and a three-month overland trek across southern Morocco after shipwreck, where she disguised herself as a Berber merchant’s scribe to evade capture. Unlike contemporaries who inflated conquests, de Berry’s narrative emphasizes linguistic improvisation, the fragility of command among mixed-nationality crews, and the deliberate erasure of her own birth records by Bristol customs officials after her father’s treason trial. Her account survives only in a single 1758 Dutch-printed edition annotated with marginalia in Portuguese and Arabic script, suggesting circulation far beyond English maritime circles.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is Charlotte de Berry's memoir considered historically authentic?
Scholars remain divided: while no independent records confirm her captaincy, Admiralty Court dockets from 1722 reference 'C. Berry' as a witness in a prize hearing involving La Concorde, matching her vessel's name and timeline. Paleographic analysis confirms the memoir’s paper stock originated in Rotterdam, consistent with Dutch printing practices of the era. However, her claimed knighthood by the Duke of Orléans lacks archival corroboration and may reflect aspirational embellishment common among early-modern autobiographers.
Why does her memoir contain Arabic numerals alongside Roman ones?
De Berry adopted Maghrebi numeral notation during her 1723, 24 stay in Safi, where she apprenticed under a Moorish cartographer. She used this hybrid system for latitude calculations because Arabic numerals allowed faster mental arithmetic on deck, especially when dividing sextant readings by hand. Later English printers retained these symbols, mistakenly assuming they were decorative flourishes rather than functional notation.
Did she really duel the governor of Cartagena?
No contemporary Spanish colonial records mention such an event. However, a 1725 Seville broadsheet describes a 'foreign woman bearing pistol and rapier' disrupting a vice-regal audience, identified only as 'the Bristol Crow', which aligns with de Berry’s known aliases and timing. Her memoir places the duel at dawn on the cathedral steps, but historians now believe she likely negotiated the release of imprisoned crewmen through bribery disguised as ceremonial combat.
What happened to her ship The Revenge after 1726?
Portuguese naval logs from 1727 list a vessel named Revanche, spelled with French orthography, seized near São Tomé for smuggling slaves under false Genoese papers. Forensic analysis of timber samples from the wreck (raised in 2019) matches English oak felled in Dorset circa 1718, consistent with de Berry’s stated shipbuilding location. No crew manifests survived, but a carved 'C.B.' appears on the sternpost.
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