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

Chapter 120: Transcriber's Notes
By Edwin A. Pratt
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A historical study traces the development and military use of railways from their early adoption through the major continental conflicts of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It analyzes how rail transport transformed strategic mobility and logistics, covering troop movements, supply organization, medical evacuation, armoured trains, and the deliberate destruction and defence of lines. Comparative examinations of national railway organisation and peacetime preparation are supported by case studies of campaigns and colonial operations, with discussion of strategical railway construction, imperial designs, and concluding lessons, plus a bibliography and practical appendices.



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I        Introductory
II        Britain's Earliest Roads
III        Roads and the Church
IV        Early Trading Conditions
V        Early Road Legislation
VI        Early Carriages
VII        Loads, Wheels and Roads
VIII        The Coaching Era
IX        The Age of Bad Roads
X        The Turnpike System
XI        Trade and Transport in the Turnpike Era
XII        Scientific Road-making
XIII        Rivers and River Transport
XIV        River Improvement and Industrial Expansion
XV        Disadvantages of River Navigation
XVI        The Canal Era
XVII        The Industrial Revolution
XVIII        Evolution of the Railway
XIX        The Railway Era
XX        Railway Expansion
XXI        Railways and the State
XXII        Decline of Canals
XXIII        Decline of Turnpikes
XXIV        End of the Coaching Era
XXV        Railway Rates and Charges
XXVI        The Railway System To-day
XXVII        What the Railways have Done
XXVIII        Railways a National Industry
XXIX        Tramways, Motor-buses and Rail-less Electric Traction
XXX        Cycles, Motor-vehicles and Tubes
XXXI        The Outlook
         Authorities
         Index

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Transcriber's Notes

Obvious errors of punctuation and diacritics repaired.

Note: "Liége" was the correct spelling at that time for what is now written "Liège".

Hyphen removed: "break-down" (p. 108), "earth-work" (p. 219), "inter-communication" (p. 173), "plate-laying" (pp. 221, 222), "rail-head" (pp. 66, 97, 108), "re-built" (p. 266), "re-organisation" (p. 264), "South-African" (p. 402), "station-master" (p. 145), "store-houses" (pp. 144, 164), "text-books" (p. 133), "turn-tables" (p. 124), "wide-spread" (pp. 15, 82).

The following variants appear frequently and have not been changed: block-house / blockhouse, head-quarter(s) / headquarter(s), sub-division(s) / subdivision(s).

P. 5: "Leipsig" changed to "Leibzig" (Leipzig-Dresden line).

P. 15: "seceeded" changed to "seceded" (the States which had seceded).

P. 17: "Ctiy" changed to "City" (Washington City, D.C.).

P. 31: "Goose Greek" changed to "Goose Creek".

P. 105: "(3)" changed to "(4)" ((4) secure the prompt unloading).

P. 185: "Mazagine" changed to "Magazine" (United Service Magazine).

P. 195: "Raliway" changed to "Railway" (Great Western Railway Magazine).

P. 218: "dependance" changed to "dependence" (to dependence on the railway).

P. 246: "in." added (4·7 in. guns).

P. 273: "de" changed to "des" (des chemins de fer).

P. 273: "Juni" changed to "Juin".

P. 284: "½" added (4 feet 8½ inches).

P. 290: "moblisation" changed to "mobilisation" (on mobilisation, or elsewhere).

P. 290: "pursuading" changed to "persuading" (persuading the Belgian Government).

P. 293, 307, 308, 316: "situate" changed to "situated".

P. 296: "promotor" changed to "promotors" (the aims of their promoters).

P. 303: "enlightment" changed to "enlightenment" (not so blind as to need enlightenment).

P. 306: "between" changed to "between" (communication between Swakopmund and the capital).

P. 315: "Renseignments" changed to "Renseignements" (Renseignements coloniaux).

P. 321: "Expediton" changed to "Expedition" (Kamerun-Eisenbahn-Expedition).

P. 328: "possesssion" changed to "possession" (into a German possession).

P. 350: "tranverse" changed to "transverse" (transverse lines connecting them).

P. 355: "diciplined" changed to "disciplined" (old and well-disciplined units).

P. 355, footnote 82: added "no" (no harm was done).

P. 373: Railway gauges changed to be consistently 3 ft. 6 in., 5 ft. 3 in., 4 ft. 8½ in.

P. 377: "Eröterung" changed to "Erörterung" (gegründeter Erörterung über die militärische Benutzung).

P. 377: "militärischen" changed to "militärische" (Eisenbahnen für militärische Zwecke).

P. 378: "militärische" changed to "militärischer" (in militärische Hinsicht).

P. 387: "Heidelburg" changed to "Heidelberg".

P. 388: "Fielddienst" changed to "Felddienst" (Felddienst Ordnung).

P. 389: "Lehrer" changed to "Lehre" (Kurze Lehre ihrer wichtigsten Grundsätze).

P. 393: "Revista Technica" changed to "Rivista Tecnica".

P. 401: Index entry for "Germany, Organisation in, present basis of organisation" changed from 188-121 to 118-121.