Rise of Rail Power In War & Conquest 1833-1914

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Author

Pratt, Edwin A., 1854-1922

Title

The Rise of Rail-Power in War and Conquest, 1833-1914

Credits

Produced by Moti Ben-Ari and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net. (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive.)

Language

English

LoC Class

UC: Military science: Maintenance and transportation

Subject

Railroads

Category

Text

eBook-No.

42438

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/42438

Release Date

March 30, 2013

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.THE RISE OF RAIL-POWER
2. 2.CONTENTS.
3. 3.PREFATORY NOTE.
4. 4.The Rise of Rail-Power in War and Conquest
5. 5.CHAPTER I A New Factor — FOOTNOTES:
6. 6.CHAPTER II Railways in the Civil War
7. 7.CHAPTER III Railway Destruction in War — FOOTNOTES:
8. 8.CHAPTER IV Control of Railways in War — FOOTNOTES:
9. 9.CHAPTER V Protection of Railways in War — FOOTNOTES:
10. 10.CHAPTER VI Troops and Supplies
11. 11.CHAPTER VII Armoured Trains — FOOTNOTES:
12. 12.CHAPTER VIII Railway Ambulance Transport — FOOTNOTES:
13. 13.CHAPTER IX Preparation in Peace for War
14. 14.CHAPTER X Organisation in Germany — FOOTNOTES:
15. 15.CHAPTER XI Railway Troops in Germany — FOOTNOTES:
16. 16.CHAPTER XII France and the War of 1870-71
17. 17.CHAPTER XIII Organisation in France — Defensive Railways — FOOTNOTES:
18. 18.CHAPTER XIV Organisation in England — The State and the Railways — Invasion Prospects and Home Defence — Engineer and Railway Staff Corps — Functions and Purposes — The War Railway Council — Railway Transport Officers — Volunteer Reviews — The South African War — Army Manœuvres of 1912 — A Railways Executive Committee — 1860 AND 1914 — Railway Troops — Strategical Railways — FOOTNOTES:
19. 19.CHAPTER XV Military Railways — The Crimean War — American Civil War — The Abyssinian Campaign — Franco-German War — Russo-Turkish War — The Sudan — FOOTNOTES:
20. 20.CHAPTER XVI Railways in the Boer War — Organisation and Control — Transport Conditions — How the System Worked — The Imperial Military Railways — Repair of Railways — Military Traffic — Miscellaneous Services — Armoured Trains — Ambulance and Hospital Trains — Transvaal Railways and the War — Development of Rail Power — FOOTNOTES:
21. 21.CHAPTER XVII The Russo-Japanese War — FOOTNOTES:
22. 22.CHAPTER XVIII Strategical Railways: Germany — FOOTNOTES:
23. 23.CHAPTER XIX A German-African Empire — German South-West Africa — The Herero Rising — Railways in G.S.W. Africa — Military Preparations — Rail Connection with Angola — German East Africa — " The Other Side of Tanganyika " — Central Africa — The Cameroons, Lake Chad and the Sudan — The Cameroons and the Congo — Official Admissions — " Der Tag " and its Programme — The Objective of the World-War — FOOTNOTES:
24. 24.CHAPTER XX Designs on Asiatic Turkey — FOOTNOTES:
25. 25.CHAPTER XXI Summary and Conclusions — A.—Advantages — B.—Conditions Essential to Efficiency — C.— Limitations in Usefulness — D.— Drawbacks and Disadvantages — FOOTNOTES:
26. 26.Appendix — INDIAN FRONTIER RAILWAYS — THE DEFENCE OF AUSTRALIA — FOOTNOTES:
27. 27.BIBLIOGRAPHY — EARLIEST REFERENCES (1833-50). — WARS AND EXPEDITIONS — Crimean War (1854-55) — Italian War (1859) — American Civil War (1861-65) — Austro-Prussian Campaign (1866) — Abyssinian Expedition (1867-68) — Franco-Prussian War (1870-71) — Russo-Turkish War (1877-78) — Egypt and the Sudan (1882-99) — Philippine War (1898) — South African War (1899-1902) — Russo-Japanese War (1904-5) — Mexican War (1910-13) — COUNTRIES — Australia — Austria-Hungary — Belgium — France — Germany — Great Britain — Holland — India — Italy — Russia — Spain — Switzerland — United States — AMBULANCE AND HOSPITAL TRAINS — ARMOURED TRAINS
28. 28.INDEX
29. 29.Transcriber's Notes

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