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1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. clvii. f. lxxviii/1 The frenche kynge had made his iourney: and reconquered townes and castelles in base Normandy.

1574 B. Rich Right Exelent Dialogue Mercury & Eng. Souldier sig. Dv ^v King Demytrius was of such exceedinge clemency, that when he had reconquered the Athenians..he..graunted them freely a great quantitie of Corne.

1584 Herle Let. in J. L. Motley Hist. United Netherlands (1860) I. iii. 76 To expulse the enemy and to reconquer their towns and country lost.

1602 W. Warner Epitome Hist. Eng. in Albions Eng. (rev. ed.) 385 Fraunce by degrees..reconquered there more than our former conquests.

1612 J. Davies Discouerie Causes Ireland 159 Sir Thomas Smith vndertooke to recouer the Ardes: and Chatterton, to reconquer then Fues and Orier.

1702 D. Jones Compl. Hist. Europe 1701 73 Your Heroick Heart and Magnanimous Soul were transported with a Desire to reconquer what had been formerly wrested from this Kingdom.

1809 N. Pinkney Trav. South of France 8 Can the Continent be reconquered at sea?

1830 E. Bulwer-Lytton Paul Clifford I. iv. 67 This idea, though conquered and reconquered, gradually swelled and encreased at his heart.

1865 F. Parkman Huguenots in Florida in France & Eng. in N. Amer. p. viii Rome,..ranging the earth to reconquer abroad what she had lost at home.

1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 541/2 His son, also named John, was dispossessed of his duchy by the king of England, but reconquered it in 1449.

1968 L. Blanch Journey into Mind's Eye iii. 56 He..had no sympathy with those..who planned to follow Marshal Pilsudski on his white horse, riding into Russia, believing they would reconquer it for themselves.

1990 Sphere (Sabena Airlines) July 9/1 With days of decadence now behind it, the town has reconquered its former prosperity.

1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World i. v. v. §5 579 Porcius Cato, who was Consull the year following, and sent into that Province; found at his comming little lesse to doe, than the reconquering of all Spaine.

1795 W. Woodfall Impartial Rep. Deb. Two Houses of Parl. I. 419 Would he wait for the reconquering of Holland and the recovery of the Austrian Netherlands?

1857 Times 4 Sept. 5/5 The experience of the past should tell us that the Sikhs..should not be relied upon for the reconquering of Bengal.

1937 Art Bull. 19 412 The reconquering of the territory from Moorish hands had suddenly called forth much new Christian building, and..the Gothic style first widely triumphed in the Aragonese kingdom.

2005 Slavic Rev. 64 426 The crusaders took Constantinople in 1204..the reconquering of the city in 1261 was preceded by the miraculous discovery of Basil II's tomb.

1777 W. Combe Diaboliad Ded. p. ii How faint does General, Sir Jefferey, or even Lord Amherst sound, when compared with the Conqueror of America! And how insipid is the title of General, Sir William, or even Lord Howe, on a comparison with the Re-conquerors of it!

1864 C. Kingsley Roman & Teuton iii. Pref. 53 Our own conquerors and re-conquerors of Hindostan have shewn enough that [etc.].

1942 Hispanic Amer. Hist. Rev. 22 705 Vargas the Reconqueror is shown to have been a conscientious and resourceful administrator of a shaky political unit.

2006 Santa Fe New Mexican (Nexis) 7 May f1 Along with the many audacious claims of ‘rights’ for the flood of migrants illegally in the United States, the reconquerors have written something they purport to be our national anthem in Spanish.