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A week earlier, the Army had reconquered the town.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 3, 2018

Though 50 years later, when Judah under Amaziah and Uzziah had reconquered the Edomites, and Elath was rebuilt, this navigation, as it seems, was again set in motion, this restoration was of no long continuance.

From The History of Antiquity, Vol. II (of VI) by Duncker, Max

The territory they had reconquered from the invaders represented an area of about forty square kilometers.

From The Story of the Great War, Volume IV (of 8) Champagne, Artois, Grodno; Fall of Nish; Caucasus; Mesopotamia; Development of Air Strategy; United States and the War by Miller, Francis Trevelyan

I found him fully convinced that the white-coated legions had reconquered Lombardy by their own unaided valor, and I left him in the same pleasant delusion.

From The Daltons, Volume II (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life by Lever, Charles James

They were the Hemerlingues, father and son, who had reconquered his Highness and were carrying him in triumph to Paris.

From The Nabob, Volume 1 by Ives, George Burnham