scaling ladders
Wall assault equipment
Scaling ladders are ladders designed for climbing walls, particularly fortifications during military assaults.
Historically, attackers would raise scaling ladders against castle or city walls while defenders tried to push them away or pour boiling substances on those climbing.
The term now appears mainly in historical contexts: The siege began with soldiers rushing forward with scaling ladders.
- rungsLadder's horizontal bars
- escaladeSiege by ladders
- siegeEncirclement forcing surrender
- siege warfareSurrounding fortifications to force capitulation
- attackAggressive act against another
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- siegessiege, siege tower, siege engine, siege engines, siege warfare
- AssyriaNineveh, Assyrian Empire, Neo-Assyrian Empire, cuneiform, royal palace
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Protective barriers around settlements
ramparts · battlements · fortifications · castle walls · parapets
scaling ladderssiege engines
Weapons for attacking fortifications
battering rams · trebuchets · siege towers · catapults · blockade
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