escalade

It had finally been decided to carry the town by escalade, and this was to be attempted during the first snow-storm, such as that which finally came on this night preceding Sunday, December 31st.

From The Road to Paris by Robert Neilson Stephens

He was the same composed and self-possessed being in a besieged garrison, in the moment of a threatened escalade, as amongst his cronies by a winter fire-side.

From Horse-Shoe Robinson A Tale of the Tory Ascendency by John Pendleton Kennedy

“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

Soissons, with its walls about 26 feet high, had complete immunity from escalade, and the damming of the Crise brook made it unassailable on the south.

From The Franco-German War of 1870-71 by Count Helmuth

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 Samuel Adams Drake

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

Can you imagine the shouts, the apostrophes, the threats, the whole Assembly rising en masse, the tribune escaladed and with difficulty guarded by the ushers!

From Napoleon the Little by Victor Hugo

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

From Roundabout Papers by William Makepeace Thackeray

But the walls did not give to the citizens all the security they desired; the ramparts might be battered down, escaladed, or the gates burst open.

From Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

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

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

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

General Schoedde’s brigade, however, was received by a hot fire of guns, jingalls, and matchlocks, and in consequence he gave orders for immediately escalading the walls.

From Our Sailors Gallant Deeds of the British Navy during Victoria's Reign by William Henry Giles Kingston

"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

“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