He seems fitted for the race and the escalade rather than for the struggle.
Mounted on them, however, as our troops were falling thick about me, I saw that we must ignominiously retreat, unless some other help could be found for our brave fellows to escalade the next wall.
The assault was to be made in three columns: the first was to blow open the Cashmere Gate, the second to escalade the Water Bastion, and the third to escalade the Moree Bastion, both of which had been pronounced practicable.
I'll escalade the convent walls myself, and liberate that lovely victim; ay, though I perished by the hands of the Inquisition for the sacrilege!
It was expected that the explosion there would fill the ditch of the horn-work with rubbish--and in the confusion and surprise, the Portuguese might possibly escalade at that point, and effect a lodgement in the place.
There was a crowd of about thirty or forty men in the lane outside, but only about half-a-dozen had had the courage to make the escalade of the wall.
The 4th Division also were to storm the breaches with us, the 3rd to escalade the castle, and the 5th Division to attack Fort Pardeleras and escalade the town on that side.
They are also distinctly represented on the towers of Aden, in the contemporary print of the escalade in 1514, reproduced in this volume.
There was a small body somewhat in advance of the rest, and she now saw that the direction which they held was towards the spot where she had seen the instrument of escalade fixed to the wall.
By some bold efforts, she reached the part of the wall to which the instrument of escaladewas attached, and, in the height of her enthusiasm, she took from her dress a narrow riband, and bound it to the top of the ropes.
An escalade was attempted by Mavrokordatos, one of the heroic chieftains of the Greeks; but it was successfully repulsed, and the attacking generals with difficulty escaped to Argos.
They carried the important fortress of Napoli di Romania by escalade December 12, under Kolokotronis, with ten thousand men, and the garrison, weakened by famine, capitulated.
The escalade was baffled; yet once more that night, just before dawn, the king in person renewed the attack on the Faubourg St. Germain.
A desperate effort was made to escalade the walls between St. Jacques and St. Germain.
The enemy, with some reason, conceived that this occupation of the town was but a preparatory step to an entry by escalade into their fort.
On these are built prodigious bastions and stone walls, with embrasures and loop-holes, so that any approach by assault or escalade was impossible.
Our General had wisely planned two extreme attacks by escalade on the castle by the Third Division and on the south side of the town by the Fifth Division, and on Fort Pardoleros by the Portuguese.
He knew the weak points, and he could escalade the walls where they were unguarded.
Between each gingall was a small hole in the parapet which held an earthen vessel filled with slaked lime, ready to be flung in the faces of an enemy attempting to escalade the walls.
We shall soon tumble those fellows over if they make the attempt to escalade the walls," said Tom.
But the manner of the Maid was ever to send cloud upon cloud of men to make escalade by ladders, their comrades aiding them from under cover with fire of couleuvrines and bows.
Twas a difficult journey, by a circuitous route, and I was more than a month on the way; but I was in time to be in the escalade and the battle.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "escalade" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
