Sentences with 'recapture'
Example sentences and phrases with the word recapture and other words derived from it.
• « Egypt recovered and new dynasties of pharaohs were sometimes able to recapture some of the glory of the ancient Egyptian kingdoms in their building projects and in the power of their armies, but in the long term Egypt proved vulnerable to foreign invasion thereafter. »
• « Justinian was determined to recapture the western empire from the Germanic kings who had seized it. He was equally interested in imposing Christian uniformity through the elimination of Christian heresies such as Arianism. »
• « Heraclius led the Byzantine armies to recapture Jerusalem and the True Cross from the Persians, defeating them in 628, and in 630 he personally returned the True Cross to its shrine in Jerusalem. »
• « The Europeans eventually lost ground in the Middle East, but managed to recapture Lisbon in Portugal from the Muslim Caliphate there. »