"Lloyd E. Sponenburgh" writes:

I only said that's the story according to black powder historians.

And their names are.....?

HINT: The earliest known reference to "brass monkey" was in 1857, and
it had nothing to do with cannons. The phrase was "freeze the tail of
a brass monkey."

p.s. Mark gave you references to look at, which you ignored.

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