escalade
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This was done next day, the fort being carried by escalade, and its garrison of two hundred men made prisoners; and on the day following, all the reserves from Tournay came up.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 369, July 1846 by Various
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
When the increasing height of walls made escalade too difficult, other means of attack had to be invented.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" by Various
While this was going on, a fresh body of Turks, bursting into the ditch, through a breach in the counterscarp, endeavored to carry the fortress by escalade.
From History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, Vols. 1 and 2 by William Hickling Prescott
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 Charles James Lever
Here it was met by the second column under Brigadier Jones, who had escaladed the breach at the Water bastion.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 17 by Charles F. (Charles Francis) Horne
He escaladed the path, left it, returned to it, quick and venturous.
From The Man Who Laughs by Victor Hugo
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
Meanwhile the first column under Nicholson escaladed the breaches near the Cashmere gate, and pushed along the ramparts toward the Kabul gate, carrying the several bastions in the way.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 17 by Charles F. (Charles Francis) Horne
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
About 8 o'clock in the evening of June 3, 1916, the Germans attempted to surprise the fortress at the southeast by escalading the ravine which cuts the bank of the Meuse near Damloup.
From The Story of the Great War, Volume V (of 8) Battle of Jutland Bank; Russian Offensive; Kut-El-Amara; East Africa; Verdun; The Great Somme Drive; United States and Belligerents; Summary of Two Years' War by Allen L. (Allen Leon) Churchill
They had a forward rake to increase by the overhang the difficulty of escalading them.
From Life in an Indian Outpost by Gordon Casserly
“Well?” said the sergeant, as the man descended by means of the broken wash-stand and chair, which had been used for escalading purposes.
From A Little World by George Manville Fenn
The walls of the peaceful Mission garden and the warlike presidio were alike lost in the escalading vines or leveled by the pushing boughs of gnarled pear and olive trees that now surmounted them.
From Selected Stories of Bret Harte by Bret Harte
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
