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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
reannex .
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If someday the states are reannexed to Mexico, I can assure that they are because of some other reason, and not because someone in Mexico planned it.
Think Progress » Buchanan: Mexico Conspiring To ‘Re-Annex’ Seven Southwest States 2006
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If someday the states are reannexed to Mexico, I can assure that they are because of some other reason and not because someone in Mexico planned it.
Think Progress » Buchanan: Mexico Conspiring To ‘Re-Annex’ Seven Southwest States 2006
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England established, cotton given her, and refused us; we were to be forever cut off from the gulf and the lower Mississippi; Portland (the star of the East) was to become a British city, and Maine, always loyal and patriotic, was to be wrested from us, and reannexed to the British crown.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various
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Reasons hold good in every Respect for their Incorporation with them, they humbly pray that the said Inhabitants of _Groton_ by the same Bounds as in the former Order stated, may be reannexed to them, for the Reasons mentioned.
The Bay State Monthly — Volume 2, No. 1, October, 1884 Various
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Imagining that South Carolina and Georgia were reannexed to the British empire in sentiment as well as in appearance, Cornwallis now meditated an attack on North Carolina.
Life and Times of Washington Schroeder, J. F. 1903
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Lorraine as reannexed to France north as far as St. Wendel, including on the west the valley of the Saar as far as Saarholzbach and on the east the town of Homburg.
Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights Kelly Miller 1901
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In 1650, the year after Charles I. 's execution, the Parliament appointed commissioners to bring royalist colonies into line; Maryland was to be reannexed to Virginia; Bennett, then governor of Virginia, and Clairborne, unseated Stone, Baltimore's lieutenant, appointed an executive council, and ordered that burgesses were to be elected by supporters of Cromwell only.
The History of the United States from 1492 to 1910, Volume 1 From Discovery of America October 12, 1492 to Battle of Lexington April 19, 1775 Julian Hawthorne 1890
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In the mean time, with what he had thus secured, he reannexed to the property a small farm which had been for some time in the market, but whose sale he had managed to delay.
Sir Gibbie George MacDonald 1864
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Imagining that South Carolina and Georgia were reannexed to the
Life and Times of Washington, Volume 2 Revised, Enlarged, and Enriched John Frederick Schroeder 1852
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My name would have gone down to posterity with those of Columbus and Galileo, and Britannula would have been noted as the most prominent among the nations of the earth, instead of having become a by-word among countries as a deprived republic and reannexed Crown colony.
The Fixed Period Anthony Trollope 1848
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