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But their artillery was too light to make any impression on the fortifications, the fire from which cut their fascines to pieces and dismounted their guns; so Montgomery determined to carry the works by escalade.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 14 by Various

For it is according to eternal fitness, that the precipitated Titan should still seek to regain his paternal birthright even by fierce escalade.

From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Herman Melville

Fatah sought out his young brother, Dost Mohammed, gave him in charge to a trusty adherent, fixed an income for his support, and marched away to besiege Qandhar, which he took by escalade.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 60, No. 373, November 1846 by Various

Only Antioch, the ancient capital of the land, held out, and Antioch also was taken in the winter by escalade, through the daring of an officer named Burtzes.

From The Byzantine Empire by Charles William Chadwick Oman

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

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

This court, moreover, was entirely hemmed in by a wall, which, if successfully escaladed, would lead us to the parade ground of the chateau.

From Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver by Brantz Mayer

Suppose, having escaladed the outer wall, the miscreants take a fancy to storm the castle?

From Roundabout Papers by William Makepeace Thackeray

Assault succeeded assault: the Duke of Crillon himself escaladed the ramparts to capture the English flag which floated on the top of a tower: he was slightly wounded.

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

"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

He was a fortress that required to be stormed, but there was considerable local curiosity about him, so that by-and- by escalading parties were formed, some of which were partly successful.

From Father and Son: a study of two temperaments by Edmund Gosse

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

“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

It might be thought that this manner of building offered considerable facilities to an escalading enemy.

From Paris from the Earliest Period to the Present Day; Volume 1 by William Walton