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    THE RISE OF RAIL-POWER
    IN WAR AND CONQUEST
    1833-1914




    THE
    RISE OF RAIL-POWER
    IN WAR AND CONQUEST
    1833-1914

    WITH A BIBLIOGRAPHY

    BY
    EDWIN A. PRATT
    Author of "A History of Inland Transport,"
    "Railways and their Rates," etc.

    LONDON
    P. S. KING & SON, LTD.
    ORCHARD HOUSE
    WESTMINSTER
    1915




CONTENTS.


    CHAP.                                    PAGE

        I  A NEW FACTOR                         1
       II  RAILWAYS IN THE CIVIL WAR           14
      III  RAILWAY DESTRUCTION IN WAR          26
       IV  CONTROL OF RAILWAYS IN WAR          40
        V  PROTECTION OF RAILWAYS IN WAR       54
       VI  TROOPS AND SUPPLIES                 62
      VII  ARMOURED TRAINS                     67
     VIII  RAILWAY AMBULANCE TRANSPORT         81
       IX  PREPARATION IN PEACE FOR WAR        98
        X  ORGANISATION IN GERMANY            103
       XI  RAILWAY TROOPS IN GERMANY          122
      XII  FRANCE AND THE WAR OF 1870-71      138
     XIII  ORGANISATION IN FRANCE             149
      XIV  ORGANISATION IN ENGLAND            175
       XV  MILITARY RAILWAYS                  205
      XVI  RAILWAYS IN THE BOER WAR           232
     XVII  THE RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR             260
    XVIII  STRATEGICAL RAILWAYS: