But the annexation was desirable in itself, and had been the unceasing effort of statesmen from the time the province had been retroceded to Spain.
And in 1731, the whole territory was retroceded to the crown of France, the objects of the company having totally failed; and Renault was left in America, without the means of prosecuting the shining business.
In the Act quoted above it has been seen that the United States retroceded to Virginia that part of the District of Columbia which comprised the county of Alexandria.
Above forty years afterwards, to wit, in 1846, the Virginia part of the District wasretroceded to that State.
The proprietors had no idea, at the time they made the contract, that their property would be retroceded and the Government had since received more than one million's worth of real property which they now enjoyed.
Thirty years afterward the province was retroceded to France, and from that nation to the United States.
Retroceded to France, in 1800, by the secret Treaty of San Ildefonso.
From that time Spain retained it till 1800, when she retroceded it to France by the secret Treaty of San Ildefonso, in exchange for an augmentation of the territories of the Duke of Parma in Italy.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "retroceded" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
