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: GERMANY 277 XIX A GERMAN-AFRICAN EMPIRE 296 XX DESIGNS ON ASIATIC TURKEY 331 XXI SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS 345 APPENDIX INDIAN FRONTIER RAILWAYS 357 THE DEFENCE OF AUSTRALIA 368 BIBLIOGRAPHY 376 INDEX 398 PREFATORY NOTE. The extent to which railways are being used in the present War of the Nations has taken quite by surprise a world whose military historians, in their accounts of what armies have done or have failed to do on the battle-field in the past, have too often disregarded such matters of detail as to how the armies got there and the possible effect of good or defective transport conditions, including the maintenance of supplies and communications, on the whole course of a campaign.