Military Trains In Conflict and War
The United States has officially declared war 11 times during five separate military conflicts. According to the Constitution (Article I, Section 8), Congress has the exclusive power to declare war. The last time America declared war was during World War II. Unofficially, the United States has been involved in nearly 400 military conflicts between 1776 and 2023 of various types, called interventions or police actions to bypass the Constitutional requirement. Article - Nearly 400 military Conflicts.
World War I (1914–1918)
During World War I, guns of smaller caliber were mounted by the Italians on railway trucks and run up and down the Adriatic, chiefly to prevent the shelling of the coast by Austrian submarines.
- Photos - Austro-Prussian Railroads
- Article - General Helmuth von Moltke - German Railroad Strategy
- Article - The Austro-Prussian War of 1866
American Civil War (1861–1865)
The Civil War in the United States began in 1861, after decades of simmering tensions between northern and southern states over slavery, states’ rights and westward expansion. The election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860 caused seven southern states to secede and form the Confederate States of America; four more states soon joined them. The War Between the States, as the Civil War was also known, ended in Confederate surrender in 1865. The conflict was the costliest and deadliest war ever fought on American soil, with some 620,000 of 2.4 million soldiers killed, millions more injured and much of the South left in ruin.
- Article - General Helmuth von Moltke - German Railroad Strategy
