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DENVER -- La reconquista, a radical movement calling for Mexico to "reconquer" America's Southwest, has stepped out of the shadows at recent immigration-reform protests nationwide as marchers held signs saying, "Uncle Sam Stole Our Land!" and waved Mexico's flag.

From On High 2006

DENVER -- La reconquista, a radical movement calling for Mexico to "reconquer" America's Southwest, has stepped out of the shadows at recent immigration-reform protests nationwide as marchers held signs saying, "Uncle Sam Stole Our Land!" and waved Mexico's flag.

Archive 2006-04-01 2006

One D.F. cabbie railed to this reporter against Americans who feel they can come to Mexico to "reconquer" the Indians.

Taxi Driver 1997

One D.F. cabbie railed to this reporter against Americans who feel they can come to Mexico to "reconquer" the Indians.

Taxi Driver 1997

When are you going to do some critical reporting on the new black panther party, or the mexican groups which threaten to "reconquer" the southwest?

The Clog 2010

Mr. Dobbs has reported as fact the so-called Aztlan conspiracy, which claims that undocumented Mexican immigrants are part of a plot to "reconquer" the American Southwest.

Southern Poverty Law Center: All Center News 2009

"These are people who want to 'reconquer' the entire American Southwest ceded to the U.S. in 1848 and have it become part of Mexico again.

Flag Wavers and Saber Rattlers: James Wolcott Wolcott, James, 1952- 2009

In the 1814 plan there was no hope to reconquer the United States, but with a British army firmly ensconced in the interior of New York, amid what the British yet again assumed was a sympathetic population, the Americans might have to concede a more southerly border for the Canadian provinces, if not in New York, then perhaps in Maine.

Between War and Peace Col. Matthew Moten 2011

While the initial Haitian revolution did succeed without facing all that many French soldiers, Napoleon did later send a large army to reconquer the island, which failed largely due to yellow fever outbreaks, as Fostert points out.

Matthew Yglesias » Did Haiti Form a Pact With the Devil? 2010

In the 1814 plan there was no hope to reconquer the United States, but with a British army firmly ensconced in the interior of New York, amid what the British yet again assumed was a sympathetic population, the Americans might have to concede a more southerly border for the Canadian provinces, if not in New York, then perhaps in Maine.

Between War and Peace Col. Matthew Moten 2011