Year XI system

The Year XI system was original in that it brought various improvements to the highly successful Gribeauval system, on which many successes of the Napoleonic Wars relied.

[4] In order to define the new improved system, Napoleon formed a committee of Artillery on 29 December 1801, presided by general Augustin Gabriel d'Aboville, First Inspector of Artillery.

[5] Napoleon himself participated in the proceedings: "The artillery should have but 4 calibres, the 6, 12, 24 prs.

In abolishing the [1-pdr] Rostaing guns, we get rid of stubborn beasts not worth the trouble they give.

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Canon de 6 système An XI , founded in Douay in 1813.
Canon de 12 court, modèle 1803 (short 12-pdr cannon, Mk 1803), Le Papegay , Year XI system. Founded in 1824 in Douai . Caliber: 120 mm (rifled in 1858). Length: 210 cm. Weight: 880 kg. Ammunition: 6 kg metal ball.
Mortar of 324 mm. Strasbourg , 1811.
Canon obusier de 11 pouces (11-inch gun-howitzer), système An XI, bronze founded in 1810 at Douai . Caliber: 297 mm. Length: 2.56 m. Weight: 6,174 kg. Ammunition: shells.