retrocede

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By a treaty of October 1, 1800, he compelled Spain to retrocede the former French province in return for a promise to establish a kingdom of "Etruria" for a Spanish prince.

From The Wars Between England and America by Smith, T. C.

I felt begin The Judgment-Day: to retrocede Was too late now.

From Browning's England A Study in English Influences in Browning by Clarke, Helen Archibald

Mr. Hunter, of Virginia, proposed to retrocede to the seceding states, the property of the United States.

From Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography. by Sherman, John

Napoleon had conceded Hanover to Prussia as the price of peace; he was ready to retrocede it to England, free to indemnify Prussia at the expense of Germany.

From World's Best Histories — Volume 7: France by Guizot, M. (François)

In these circumstances the Italian Government offered, at a convenient opportunity, to retrocede Kassala to Egypt.

From The River War An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan by Churchill, Winston