escalade

• An attack by escalade was preparing against Fort Bogota, a sally had been made from it to destroy La Marmora's works, more troops were coming up, and occupying ground on the east side of the town. —  Charles Philip Yorke, Fourth Earl of Hardwicke, Vice-Admiral R.N.
• An opportunity seemed to offer itself of capturing the place by escalade, which part of the army attempted contrary to orders. —  Caesar: A Sketch
• Do you guys use drugs?? so you got offended 'cause you fit in my last piece? do you? who are you people? my escalade, my caravan, 43 inch plasma tv! —  Home
• Raymond of Toulouse at last forced his way into the city by escalade, while at the very same moment Tancred and Robert of Normandy succeeded in bursting open one of the gates. —  Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
• He and I alone knew beforehand where exactly the escalade was to be, and it was a singular joy to share a large, potential secret with another able to make it good, as General Wolfe most handsomely did, though, once being shown how, no great difficulty remained When, in the hurry of Quebec that fated morning, I heard Fraser's Highlanders had climbed the cliffs, swinging from foothold to foothold like the wild cats of their native mountains, I said to myself, 'This is, indeed, my venture, and it is fitting my own people should carry it out.' —  The Black Colonel

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