Hardly.
32# shot has a diameter of about 6.35" making the monkey about 25.4" square.
The coefficient of expansion for iron = 11.1e-6 and brass = 19e-6.
For a 100°C temperature change the difference in expansion between
4 cannon balls and the edge of the monkey is only 0.02".
Art


"Brad Naylor" wrote ...
[snip]

Thus, it was quite literally,
"Cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey."