Reassured by the silence of the garrison, some thirty pirates, among whom were several of their chiefs, escaladed the great gate in turn, and rushed toward the second wall.
The allies landed amidst the roar of the bombardment and the engirdling flames, escaladed certain defences, drove the Chinese into the city, and occupied with promptitude the strong positions from which the enemy was driven.
The wall was escaladed in two places, and in a short time complete possession was taken of Chinghae, the Chinese troops having made their escape through the western gate.
That night the convent of San Francisco was escaladedby a wing of the 40th, and the French having abandoned the suburbs, they were occupied by the besiegers.
Retiring from a place where success was hopeless, the storming party moved round the left flank, andescaladed and won the parapet; while another forced the salient angle simultaneously.
Fifty men had escaladedthe wall before the alarm spread through the town; a gate was soon burst to permit the entrance of Count Maurice with a body of cavalry.
Assault succeeded assault: the Duke of Crillon himself escaladed the ramparts to capture the English flag which floated on the top of a tower: he was slightly wounded.
At last a breach was declared to be practicable, and 400 French sailors and marines were landed to carry it, while the imperialists, wearing blue sashes to distinguish them from the rebels, escaladed the walls at another point.
Here it was met by the second column under Brigadier Jones, who had escaladed the breach at the Water bastion.
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.
The marine and seamen battalion, therefore, pushed on to attack the city, and escaladed the walls in two places on the east side--the enemy making their escape through the western gate which led into the open country.
The advanced guard of the 55th had in the meanwhile come round along the walls from their north-eastern angle, where General Schoedde's brigade had escaladed it, and had now reached the inner gateway.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "escaladed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
