Valée system

The system mainly improved the mobility of the artillery train, and simplified maintenance by standardizing limber usage and wheel size, and reducing the number of carriage types to two.

[1] Valée also improved the guns themselves slightly, by making them lighter, and with a longer range.

[3] It would be used at the Capture of Alger (1830) and the Fall of Constantine (1837), as well as during the Crimea War (1853–1856).

[4] A new generation of weapons would emerge in shell-firing canon obusiers, with the invention of the naval shell-gun by Paixhans in 1823, and the introduction of the canon obusier de 12 in 1853 by the French Army, which would render the Valée system obsolete.

[1] Media related to Valée system at Wikimedia Commons

The " Gribeauval system " was improved by Sylvain-Charles, comte Valée from 1821 to 1831, to be used under the name "Valée system" until the Crimea War (1853–1856).
Valée artillery train for a canon de 12.
Obusier de 15 cm Valée , modèle 1828, founded in 1852 in Douai . Caliber: 151 mm. Length: 1.71 m. Weight: 587 kg. Ammunition: shell within sabot, 7.7 kg.
Canon de 12 Valée with carriage, 1854.
Canon de 8 Valée Le Dédain , modèle 1764 modifié 1828, founded in Strasbourg in 1847. Caliber: 106 mm. Length: 1.84 m. Weight: 590 kg. Ammunition: 5.3 kg ball with cartridge.