reconquests

Whether, indeed, afterwards I might not have succeeded in breaking off the habit, even when it seemed to me that all efforts would be unavailing, and whether many of the innumerable efforts which I did make might not have been carried much further, and my gradual reconquests of ground lost might not have been followed up much more energetically — these are questions which I must decline.

Confessions of an English Opium-Eater 2003

Ottoman sultan 1687–91 who, despite his short reign and 46 years of enforced confinement before he succeeded his brother Mehmed IV, was able to strengthen the Ottoman state through internal reforms and reconquests of territory.

Archive 2001-01-01 Lionheart 2001

Ottoman sultan 1687–91 who, despite his short reign and 46 years of enforced confinement before he succeeded his brother Mehmed IV, was able to strengthen the Ottoman state through internal reforms and reconquests of territory.

Islam's War to Save the World Lionheart 2001

I might not have succeeded in breaking off the habit, even when it seemed to me that all efforts would be unavailing, and whether many of the innumerable efforts which I did make might not have been carried much further, and my gradual reconquests of ground lost might not have been followed up much more energetically -- these are questions which I must decline.

Confessions of an English Opium-Eater Thomas De Quincey 1822

*** And here indeed the course of the King's misfortunes begins to make some halt and stay by thus much prosperous successe in his own person; but more in the person of Sir James, by the reconquests of his owne castles and countries.

Waverley Novels — Volume 12 Walter Scott 1801

Further, in citing the "long series of attacks and counterattacks, jihads and crusades, conquests and reconquests," Lewis implicitly refutes those who seek to lay the blame exclusively on one side or the other

ThreatsWatch 2009

It has consisted of a long series of attacks and counterattacks, jihads and crusades, conquests and reconquests.

ThreatsWatch 2009

*** And here indeed the course of the King’s misfortunes begins to make some halt and stay by thus much prosperous successe in his own person; but more in the person of Sir James, by the reconquests of his owne castles and countries.

Castle Dangerous 2008