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
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 S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
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
"I so did, sir—same being in the act o' scaling wall—taking my lady's garden by escalade as ye might say."
From Our Admirable Betty A Romance by Jeffery Farnol
“What! are you certain of this?” cried he, eagerly; “is there not one side on which escalade is possible?”
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, February, 1852 by
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
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
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
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
He escaladed the path, left it, returned to it, quick and venturous.
From The Man Who Laughs by Victor Hugo
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
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
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
“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
