Obusier de 15 cm Valée allowing the whole artillery train to move as fast as the infantry or cavalry. Valée also improved the guns themselves slightly, by making them lighter, and with a longer range. The complete Valée system consisted in siege guns of 24 and 16 inches, and field guns of 12 and 8 inches. It also included field howitzers of 24 and 6 inches, and a siege howitzer of 8 inches. Mountain artillery pieces were of 12 inches caliber. Mortars were of 12, 10 and 8 inches, with a 15 inches stone mortar. French artillery would be reorganized along the Valee system in
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