escalade

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The assailants had no heavy artillery, nor any material for escalade; but they had money, and gold proved a better battering-train than lead.

From Roland Cashel Volume I (of II) by Lever, Charles James

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

The escalade was managed by means of a ruined tree which projected from the wall.

From The Unveiling of Lhasa by Candler, Edmund

The position was of great strength, and would have been an ugly place to carry by escalade.

From Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast by Drake, Samuel Adams

Moreover, he felt that escalade hardly became either his age or habit of body.

From The White Plumes of Navarre A Romance of the Wars of Religion by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)