escalade

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 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

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

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

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

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

The cat escaped once more and Mahony began to throw stones at the wall she had escaladed.

From Dubliners by James Joyce

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

He escaladed the path, left it, returned to it, quick and venturous.

From The Man Who Laughs by Victor Hugo

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

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 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

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

"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

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