escalade

Example Sentences

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He determined, therefore, to attempt to carry the place by escalade.

From The Student's Life of Washington; Condensed from the Larger Work of Washington Irving For Young Persons and for the Use of Schools by Irving, Washington

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 Lever, Charles James

In the reign of Queen Mary this stronghold was taken by an escalade.

From The Genius of Scotland or Sketches of Scottish Scenery, Literature and Religion by Turnbull, Robert

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 Helmuth, Count

“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