scalade
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of scalade
First recorded in 1585–95; variant of escalade
Example Sentences
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He tried some small prefatory Siege or scalade of Pesth; could not do it; and came his ways home again, as the best course.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 03 by Thomas Carlyle
Count Daun comes on in a tempest of furious fire; 'very heavy,' they say, from great guns and small; till close upon the place, when he summons Du Chatelet: 'No;' and thereupon attempts scalade.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 14 by Thomas Carlyle
Daulis, being situated on a lofty eminence, could not be reduced either by scalade or works: he therefore provoked the garrison, by missile weapons, to make sallies from out the town.
From The History of Rome, Books 27 to 36 by Titus Livius
The citizens of Exeter shut their gates; and the rebels, as they had no cannon, endeavored to take the place, first by scalade, then by mining; but were repulsed in every attempt.
From The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part C. From Henry VII. to Mary by David Hume
NW. of Liegnitz; is a place of manufacture; was brilliantly taken by Frederick the Great in the Silesian War on the 9th March 1741 by scalade, in one hour, at the very break of day.
From The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by P. Austin Nuttall
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