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CHAPTER I A New Factor

CHAPTER II Railways in the Civil War

CHAPTER III Railway Destruction in War

CHAPTER IV Control of Railways in War

CHAPTER V Protection of Railways in War

CHAPTER VI Troops and Supplies

CHAPTER VII Armoured Trains

CHAPTER VIII Railway Ambulance Transport

CHAPTER IX Preparation in Peace for War

CHAPTER X Organisation in Germany

CHAPTER XI Railway Troops in Germany

CHAPTER XII France and the War of 1870-71

CHAPTER XIII Organisation in France

Defensive Railways

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

CHAPTER XV Military Railways

The Crimean War

American Civil War

The Abyssinian Campaign

Franco-German War

Russo-Turkish War

The Sudan

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

CHAPTER XVII The Russo-Japanese War

CHAPTER XVIII Strategical Railways: Germany

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

CHAPTER XX Designs on Asiatic Turkey

CHAPTER XXI Summary and Conclusions

A.—Advantages

B.—Conditions Essential to Efficiency

C.— Limitations in Usefulness

D.— Drawbacks and Disadvantages

Appendix

INDIAN FRONTIER RAILWAYS

THE DEFENCE OF AUSTRALIA

BIBLIOGRAPHY

EARLIEST REFERENCES (1833-50) .

WARS AND EXPEDITIONS

COUNTRIES

INDEX

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

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