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Dutch military adds railway steel to rush troops to NATO’s east flank
Deployment in anger is not something that is planned, that always comes up suddenly, so you need some kind of minimum own ...
The New York Times6y
GENERAL SHERMAN'S ARMY.; Military Railroads Farewell of Gen. Jo. Hooker The Action of the 28th-Our Prospects for Atlanta.
I arrived here on Saturday, 30th ult., after a very tiresome ride on, one of those modes of conveyance known as a military railroad -- a mode of transportation excessively exhausting to feeble ...
The 250-mile railway that's now become a headache for NATO
A railway line Winston Churchill wanted to bomb in World War II to cut off Nazi Germany's iron imports is once again causing ...
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Native Americans, Military Science, and Ambivalence on the Pacific Railroad Surveys, 1853–1855
For a summary of the congressional transcontinental railroad debates and proposed (and failed ... Pappas, To the Point: The United States Military Academy, 1802–1902 (Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 1993), ...
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The Panic of 1873
Jay Cooke's firm had been the government's chief financier of the Union military effort during the Civil War. The firm then became a federal agent in the government financing of railroad construction.