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People from the town of Hartlepool in England are sometimes called “Monkey Hangers”- due to a folktale that during the Napoleonic Wars, a French ship was shipwrecked near the town, and a Monkey was the only survivor. Locals hanged it under the belief it was a spy, creating the nickname.

Legend has it that the people of Hartlepool tried and hung a shipwrecked monkey, believing him to be a French soldier. Hartlepoolians are now nicknamed 'monkey hangers'

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1. People from Hartlepool are known as monkey hangers because in the Napoleonic Wars a ship wrecked off the coast and the only survivor was a monkey. The locals then put the monkey on trial for being a French spy, because they hadn't seen a Frenchman or a monkey before, and consequently hung it

2. According to legend, members of Hartlespool, England executed a monkey dressed in a French uniform during the Napoleonic Wars after it was discovered in a shipwreck. 200 years later Hartlepudlians are still known as "monkey hangers."

3. Hartlepool United FC in England are nicknamed the "Monkey Hangers", and their (costumed) mascot was elected town mayor