After reconquering Brescia, which was occupied by the Venetians, he marched on Ravenna, garrisoned by papal and Spanish soldiers.
From the time of his accession he dreamed of winning glory in Italy, and reconquering the duchy of Milan.
He aimed at reconquering Italy, Africa, and Spain--if not the further provinces of the old empire.
While the Sultan was engaged with them Alexius despoiled him of Smyrna, Ephesus, and Sardis, reconquering Western Asia Minor almost without a blow, since the Seljouk hordes were drawn away eastward.
They appear from this time to have given up the expectation of reconquering the country, and confined their hostilities to the rapid incursions of small bands.
The hostile tribes north of the Ohio had by this time found the strength of the settlers, and saw that unless they made a powerful effort, and that speedily, they must forever relinquish all hope of reconquering Kentucky.
After rapidly reconquering his own territories, the Elector John Frederick hastened with a considerable army to meet his enemy.
The Christians of the Asturias had sprung from very small beginnings, but they were now increasing in strength, and they had the stimulating thought to spur them on, that they were reconquering their own land.
Toledo was, as usual, in revolt, and nothing but the jealousies and divisions of the Christians of the north prevented them from reconqueringtheir long lost territory.
But the great work of reconquering the three southern provinces of the island he deferred till William should arrive.
Feelings of the same kind were nourished everywhere by the results of an expedition which Buonaparte sent, before the close of 1801, to St. Domingo, for the purpose of reconquering that island to France.
The conspirators plotted to rouse the Mexican population of our southern border, sow disaffection among our Southern negroes, and explode the mine at the psychological moment by means of a "Reconquering Equitable Army" invading Texas.
The projected war was conceived strictly in terms of race, the reconquering equitable army to be composed solely of "Latins," negroes, and Japanese.
A deeper motive than the mere reconquering of Galicia lay behind Von Mackensen's plan--he aimed at nothing less than the complete overthrow and destruction of the Russian armies.
Pius had but one end, that of reconquering Christendom, of restoring the rebel nations to the fold of the Church, and of stamping out heresy by fire and sword.
The realm of Elizabeth was too important for the general Papal scheme of reconquering Christendom to be lightly let go.
In 1801 the more important task of reconquering Egypt itself was undertaken.
With this insignificant army and aided by local militia and the partisan bands, Greene was confronted with the task of reconquering a province which was occupied by a skillful general whose veteran army outnumbered him four to one.
After many days of inaction, General Lee had left his camp at White Plains with the intention, as he grandiloquently put it, of reconquering New Jersey.
The decisive victories of Prince Eugene of Savoy finally accomplished this, and the Turks henceforth gave up all hopes of reconquering Hungary.
He followed with sympathy the movements of the crusaders, and upon Jerusalem’s falling into the hands of the infidels in 1187, he planned himself to lead an army for the purpose of reconquering the holy city.
His general in the west was not content with reconquering the towns taken by Mita, but even pressed southward as far as the Arabian Desert, and transferred the tribes subdued there to Samaria.
Sennacherib and the war of the succession, to repudiate his allegiance, and may perhaps have already thought of reconquering Babylon.
It would be a task greater than the capture of Port Arthur to capture one pass and get it away from the Japanese after we had got into motion and started in with the job of reconquering California.
It may well happen that, although such a seceded State is already recognised by a third Power, the mother country does not consider the territory to be lost and succeeds in reconquering it.
He even succeeded in reconquering four of the northwestern shires.
Bolívar’s idea of reconquering Venezuela was looked upon as folly, just as San Martin’s idea of reconquering Chile was when he first broached it.
This gave him an idea; he resolved to cross the Cordillera and save Venezuela by reconquering New Granada.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "reconquering" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
