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Example sentences for "recaptured"

Lexicographically close words:
recapitulated; recapitulates; recapitulating; recapitulation; recapture; recaptures; recapturing; recast; recasting; recche
  1. McMillan of "A" Company was captured and forced by the Bosch to carry back wounded, but on his second trip he was recaptured in a counter-attack led by Capt.

  2. During the day this line of trenches was captured, lost and recaptured by counter-attacks no less than three times.

  3. As already stated in the Daily Chronicle, Plüschow’s companion, Trefftz, was recaptured on Monday evening at Millwall Docks.

  4. Unfortunately, however, two or three of them were recaptured and again incarcerated in Libby.

  5. Winder, then telegraphed the names of the recaptured officers.

  6. Evrenos advanced on the left, recaptured the fortress of Tchorlu, five miles from Constantinople, massacred its garrison, and razed its walls.

  7. In the second he recaptured the city of Bagdad, after a most desperate resistance by the Persians.

  8. It had three times in the last hundred years been captured by the Ottomans, and had as often been recaptured by the Greeks.

  9. The important stronghold of Neuhausel, which twenty-two years previously had been captured by the Turks, was now recaptured after a desperate resistance.

  10. Twenty-two years later the Ottomans recaptured Belgrade and drove the Austrians from Serbia.

  11. He spoke in high terms of the character and conduct of Father Jonois, and requested that Gladwyn would send all the troops he could spare up Lake Huron, that the post might be recaptured from the Indians, and garrisoned afresh.

  12. The percentage of marked plaice annually recaptured in the North Sea has been found to be remarkably high (from 25 to 50 %), and throws a significant light on the intensity of fishing under modern conditions.

  13. It brought information that Montagu had recaptured part of the Newfoundland convoy, and had learnt that Nielly was to join Vanstabel at sea, and that their combined force would be 9 sail of the line.

  14. On the 21st he recaptured some of the Dutch ships taken by Villaret-Joyeuse.

  15. Ensign Yorke, of the 39th Foot, faced the rear company about, and made a gallant charge upon the horsemen, drove them back, and recaptured the guns.

  16. The Mission of St. Augustine recaptured Britain--but Britain is remarkable in the history of civilization for the fact that alone of civilized lands it needed to be recaptured at all.

  17. These last were recaptured by the Canadians, but the enemy had already destroyed them.

  18. Vidzy was recaptured on the 20th; Smorgon, south of Novo Grodek, on the 21st; and Vileika before the end of the month.

  19. With the help of their fleet the Russians won their way back to Kemmern; and in their counter-offensive from Dvinsk in the same month recaptured Illutsk.

  20. Austrians recaptured Brody on the same day.

  21. Messines was recaptured by the South Africans, but had to be abandoned when the enemy's advance in the south pushed almost as far as Neuve Eglise.

  22. In the case of officers escaping, it was enacted that if recaptured they “shall from that time be considered and treated in all respects like common men.

  23. Those who failed to do so or were recaptured were severely treated.

  24. A cadet of the Utrecht, Dutch man-of-war, who broke his parole at Tenterden, when recaptured was sent to the hulks at Chatham.

  25. About 8 o’clock on the Sunday night a sergeant and corporal of the Durham Division, out on leave from the Depot, encountered the escaped prisoners near Stamford, recaptured two, marched to the inn and placed them in security.

  26. In April of the same year fighting was resumed, and Trebizond, Erzinjan, Erzerum, Mush, and Van were recaptured by the Turks.

  27. But after the Russian revolution, the Turks successively recaptured all the towns the Russian troops had conquered in Transcaucasia and Asia Minor, and soon threatened Caucasus.

  28. The railway line was recaptured later on, but the contingents sent to Deraa had to fight with Arabian bands at Mosmieh.

  29. British vessel, recaptured from the enemy by the privateer bilander Young Eagle, John Rous commander, the same privateer that brought in the Amsterdam Post, with its former lieutenant now commander (doc.

  30. It would not do to rise now, for we may be surrounded by other ships, and if we overpowered the crew, we should at once be attacked and recaptured by them.

  31. Immediately we have recaptured her, I shall return on board with the rest, leaving you with your fifty men in charge of her.

  32. As soon as day broke, the galley they had last recaptured was seen, half a mile away, while the two others could be made out some six miles to leeward.

  33. We recaptured her, and carried her off from under their noses.

  34. It is glorious, Francis," Matteo said, "to think that we should have recaptured four of our ships!

  35. In a few days, he sailed with his galleys and recaptured Loredo, driving out the Paduan garrison there.

  36. If the wind had gone down instead of rising, we would have recaptured the whole fleet, one by one.

  37. This vessel had been recaptured from a Spanish guarda costa.

  38. Desertions from ships lying near the coast were of weekly occurrence, although recaptured deserters were hanged summarily at the yard-arm.

  39. The whole squadron gave chase; and the "Monsieur," being the swiftest sailer of the fleet, recaptured the prize.

  40. In Philadelphia there were several lawyers that could always be depended on to resist the claims of the slave-owner to his recaptured property in the courts.

  41. Action before the Supreme Court of Ohio on the circuit to secure the liberation of a recaptured slave: 2 Western Law Journal, 279; Schuckers, Life and Public Services of S.

  42. Turks, now took energetic measures to continue the war, and very soon his forces recaptured Gran, the ancient seat of the primate of Hungary, which for a long time had owned the Turkish rule.

  43. The city authorities of Kassa recaptured the church, but it was taken from them again by force, and the city was mulcted by the government in a heavy fine of money.

  44. This Zulu party was subsequently ascertained to be a portion of the force that fought at Zlobani, and one of the recaptured horses was recognized as belonging to a mounted private of the 80th, attached to Russell's Mounted Infantry.

  45. A serious raid happened on the 11th February; but Schermbrucker came up with the marauders as they were retiring with their booty, recaptured some of the cattle taken, and killed about a dozen of the enemy.

  46. The guns were captured and recaptured several times before dark.

  47. The battery was captured by the rebels and recaptured by our troops.

  48. So the Earl is recaptured and brought back.

  49. While engaged here the rebels had recaptured a small part of their works on our right, and we were ordered to move to that point.

  50. Some jumped from the cars, but we were so near Charleston they were recaptured and arrived in the city as soon as we did.

  51. In that way we made our number good, but so many were recaptured and brought back that they mistrusted what we were doing, and made us stand in line until all were counted.

  52. One of the many resolutions we had made at the beginning of our journey was that we would not be recaptured by any one man.

  53. In the Civil War the Royalists captured it from the Parliamentarians, who held it, and it remained in the king's possession until after the defeat at Naseby, when Cromwell recaptured it.

  54. Her partisans recaptured the place, and Stephen in the second siege was made a prisoner.

  55. The castle, however, was soon recaptured from the rebels, and Thomas Stafford, the leader in this enterprise, was beheaded.

  56. But her triumph was short lived, for the Romans, gaining reinforcements, recaptured the city.

  57. These, advancing over the perfectly open ground, recaptured the trenches and gallantly held them against further attacks.

  58. A very large number of German dead were counted in the recaptured position, and a considerable number of prisoners taken.

  59. Next day we all rode out to the Krishin redoubt which Skobeleff had taken, and which was soon afterwards recaptured with fearful loss.

  60. I gathered that desperate fighting had gone on here, and that the redoubt had already been captured and recaptured two or three times.

  61. Three of the 19 marked on 8 July were recaptured in the same area on 9 July.

  62. All individuals marked were recaptured three hours after release in Areas 1 (two fish) and 3 (five fish).

  63. When recaptured four days later, this fish was still in the area of release.

  64. Five of these were recaptured three hours after release, all near the point of release.

  65. Of four individuals marked and released at the upper Neosho station in 1959, one was recaptured about three hours after being released.

  66. The species was common in Area 5 also where five of eight marked individuals were recaptured two days after release.

  67. The fifth fish recaptured was one of five individuals that had been displaced one pool downstream.

  68. Two of six black bullheads that were recaptured had moved.

  69. Recaptured escapees were paraded around camp by American guards for twenty four hours and then used for bayonet practice by the trainees and Koreans.

  70. To him his wife's last words were inexplicable, unless they meant that his physique was not his strong point, and that he might not have recaptured the Musical Kaffir so very easily.


  71. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "recaptured" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.