Sentences with 'reconquer'
Example sentences and phrases with the word reconquer and other words derived from it.
• « Some of the Greek polis rose up in the hope of ending Macedonian control almost as soon as it began, but Alexander the Great returned to reconquer the rebellious Greek cities. »
• « Some historians have speculated that Theodoric and the Goths might have been able to forge a new stable Empire in the west and thus prevent the coming of the "Dark Ages", but that possibility was cut short when the Byzantine Empire invaded to try to reconquer its lost territory. »
• « Pope Innocent III, in 1212, ordered the Children's Crusade to reconquer the Holy Land from infidel power. His argument was irrefutable: "God protects the innocent, and will not allow anything to happen to children". »
• « They crossed the River Plate, landed at La Agraciada with great popular support and began to reconquer Uruguayan territory. »