Artillery Upgrades
 

Design more durable gun carriage: Gribovalle system

In 1750, French artillery general Jean Batiste Gribovalle (1715-1789) invented horizontal foot screw that lightened cannon laying. In 1774 Gribovalle has conducted artillery reorganization. Since then, cannon caliber was standardized (field artillery comprised 12-, 8-, and 4-pound guns) in order to facilitate artillery ammunition supply, and each gun component was manufactured in compliance with punctually prescribed standard; thus in case of gun-carriage breakage, a defective part could be quickly replaced. Gribovalle's gun-carriages were used for long in European armies and allowed increasing guns' durability.