The Collaborative International Dictionary
Reconquest \Re*con"quest\ (-kw?st), n. A second conquest.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. The act or process of conquering something again, such as a territory.
Wikipedia
Spanish Reconquest or just Reconquest is a period of Chilean history that started in 1814 with the royalist victory at the Battle of Rancagua and ended in 1817 with the patriot victory at the Battle of Chacabuco. During this time the supporters of the Spanish Empire restored their control over Chile, while the patriots tried to spread the independentist ideas among the people, mainly through the guerrilla of Manuel Rodríguez Erdoiza. Authors such as the Chileans Julio Heise and Jaime Eyzaguirre prefer to call the period Absolutist Restoration, considering it merely the return to power of the royalists.
Usage examples of "reconquest".
French forces been joined to those under Manak Chand, the reconquest of Calcutta would not have been so easily achieved.
While the English were engaged capturing Bassein, the Birmese attempted the reconquest of Martaban, but were repulsed with great slaughter, by a very small force, with little loss.
Men who were not likely to rejoice either at the taxes necessary to pay for reconquests in the western territories, or at the disruption of the export-import trade it implied.
It was by no means a reconquest of the westlands but a slow, wary reoccupation of territory Abivard had, for the time being, abandoned.
He hoped, Theodora knew, to gain orthodox approval for his projected reconquest of the western Empire.