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Edwin A. Pratt. The Rise of Rail-Power in War and Conquest, 1833-1914
The Rise of Rail-Power in War and Conquest, 1833-1914
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I. A New Factor
Footnote
CHAPTER II. Railways in the Civil War
CHAPTER III. Railway Destruction in War
Footnote
CHAPTER IV. Control of Railways in War
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CHAPTER V. Protection of Railways in War
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CHAPTER VI. Troops and Supplies
CHAPTER VII. Armoured Trains
Footnote
CHAPTER VIII. Railway Ambulance Transport
Footnote
CHAPTER IX. Preparation in Peace for War
CHAPTER X. Organisation in Germany
Footnote
CHAPTER XI. Railway Troops in Germany
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CHAPTER XII. France and the War of 1870-71
CHAPTER XIII. Organisation in France
Defensive Railways
Footnote
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
Footnote
CHAPTER XV. Military Railways
The Crimean War
American Civil War
The Abyssinian Campaign
Franco-German War
Russo-Turkish War
The Sudan
Footnote
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
Footnote
CHAPTER XVII. The Russo-Japanese War
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CHAPTER XVIII. Strategical Railways: Germany
Footnote
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
Footnote
CHAPTER XX. Designs on Asiatic Turkey
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CHAPTER XXI. Summary and Conclusions
A.—Advantages
B.—Conditions Essential to Efficiency
C.—Limitations in Usefulness
D.—Drawbacks and Disadvantages
Footnote
Appendix
INDIAN FRONTIER RAILWAYS
THE DEFENCE OF AUSTRALIA
Footnote
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
Official Publications
Germany
Designs on Africa
Destruction and Restoration of Railways
Germany and the Baghdad Railway
Official Publications
Railway Troops
Strategical Railways
Tactics and Strategy
Great Britain
Engineer and Railway Staff Corps
Official Publications
Holland
India
Italy
Russia
Spain
Switzerland
United States
AMBULANCE AND HOSPITAL TRAINS
ARMOURED TRAINS
INDEX
