reconquer

How To Use reconquer In A Sentence

• In the 6th century, when the Byzantines attempted to reconquer the Western Empire, a brief period of direct Byzantine trade with Britain seems to have occurred.
• They were pawns in the Vatican's plan to reconquer Scotland and reinstate the regime of the cardinals, the bishops and the priests.
• It was clear now that Britain could not possibly hope to ever reconquer the American colonies, not without the cost of thousands of young men.
• Attracting numerous barbarian auxiliaries through generous payments, Justinian managed to reconquer much of Italy and the coastal strip of southern Spain, bolstering his claim to be reviving the empire's glory.
• The Spanish returned to reconquer the Rio Grande area in 1692.
• Mr. Dobbs has reported as fact the so-called Aztlan conspiracy, which claims that undocumented Mexican immigrants are part of a plot to "reconquer" the American Southwest. Southern Poverty Law Center: All Center News
• But after the Austrian defeat at Wagram, the French under Eugène reconquered the region.
• But he was eager to emulate his father and reconquer parts of Germany lost after the defeat of Quinctilius Varus.
• However, by 1920 it was reconquered by Russia, and in 1922 it became a constituent part of the Soviet Union, as part of the Transcaucasian Socialist Soviet Republic.
• From here, by arrangement with the Georgian government, Gelayev's fighters set out to assist in reconquering Abkhazia and to open up a second front against Russia.