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A relatively long-barreled artillery piece, firing it's projectile at higher velocities and flatter trajectories than the howitzer or the mortar. This term is also sometimes used to refer to heavy ordnance in general. The gun's velocity and trajectory made it suitable for use as a "battering piece" against fortifications, or for long range firing.
 
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Sometimes the long, slender iron guns failed to perform as desired, as in this example in the U. S. Army Artillery museum at Ft. Sill, Oklahoma. Despite the relative cost, by the time of the Civil War the more robust bronze Napoleon gun-howitzer had mostly replaced these.

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