Simplify the following text for a Grade 7 native English-speaking person.
Original: Hartlepool is famous for allegedly executing a monkey during the Napoleonic Wars . According to legend , fishermen from Hartlepool watched a French warship founder off the coast , and the only survivor was a monkey , which was dressed in French military uniform , presumably to amuse the officers on the ship .
Simplified: There is a legend that during the Napoleonic Wars , a French ship was wrecked off the coast near Hartlepool .