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By this time the freebooters had won the drawbridge, and, displaying their colours on the edge of the ditch, demanded means for the escalade.

From The Monarchs of the Main, Volume III (of 3) Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers by Walter Thornbury

The earliest form of attack was of course escalade, either by ladders or by heaping up a ramp of faggots or other portable materials.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" by Various

And three more squads of 'em missing, sir—looted, your honour's arternoon by means of escalade t'other side party-wall.

From Our Admirable Betty A Romance by Jeffery Farnol

He stopped suddenly, and gazed for a moment at the riband on the top of the escalade.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 10 by Various

He determined, therefore, to attempt to carry the place by escalade.

From The Student's Life of Washington; Condensed from the Larger Work of Washington Irving For Young Persons and for the Use of Schools by Washington Irving

Fifty men had escaladed the wall before the alarm spread through the town; a gate was soon burst to permit the entrance of Count Maurice with a body of cavalry.

From A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 6 by Robert Black

For facing us were the mountain heights, which had to be escaladed before we could leave the river gulch.

From An Australian in China Being the Narrative of a Quiet Journey Across China to Burma by George Ernest Morrison

Anon, however, when by way of a garden gate and an easily escaladed balcony he found himself in the presence of Isabella, the delight of her effaced all other considerations.

From The Historical Nights' Entertainment Second Series by Rafael Sabatini

The cart on my right, defended by George, was escaladed by three wolves, one of which was immediately disabled by a thrust of the vigorous old man's pike.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 332, June, 1843 by Various

It was a formidable-looking place, with a deep ditch in front, and strong palisades, which must be pulled down or escaladed before it could be entered.

From The Three Admirals by J.R. Wells

They had a forward rake to increase by the overhang the difficulty of escalading them.

From Life in an Indian Outpost by Gordon Casserly

This was not discovered till the assaulting party arrived without bridges, and with nothing but escalading ladders, which they attempted to use as bridges.

From General Gordon A Christian Hero by Seton Churchill

"When you promised me—" stammered Nicky-Nan, escalading the stairs and holding his staff before him as if storming a breach.

From Nicky-Nan, Reservist by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

I caused a sloping picket fence, technically called a fraise, to be projected over the parapet on my side of the work, as an obstacle against an escalading party.

From Reminiscences of Forts Sumter and Moultrie in 1860-'61 by Abner Doubleday

It was this Yorinobu who won such fame by escalading the castle of Taira Tadatsune and who established his family's footing in the Kwanto.

From A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era by F. (Frank) Brinkley