reännexation

Updated: June 3, 2025

For after all, England was to be subjugated only as a portion of one general scheme; the main features of which were the reannexation of Holland and "the islands," and the acquisition of unlimited control upon the seas. Thus the invasion of England was no "scarecrow," as Wilford imagined, but a scheme already thoroughly matured.

John Lothrop Motley - History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce — Complete (1584-1609)

He says: "The object of the publication of that letter of Andrew Jackson was to trump up a shadow of argument for a pretended reännexation of Texas to the United States, by a fabulous pretension that it had been treacherously surrendered to Spain, in the Florida treaty of 1819, by our government, meaning thereby the Secretary of State of that day, John Quincy Adams, in return for greater obligations than any one public servant of this nation was ever indebted for to another.

Josiah Quincy - Memoir of the Life of John Quincy Adams.

In this conflict of opposite interests, the influence of the cabinet of Versailles, and the jealousy of the naval power of Britain, at length obtained the victory; and his Catholic Majesty determined to prevent the reannexation of the United States to their mother country; but to effect this object by negotiation rather than by the sword.

John Marshall - The Life of George Washington, Vol. 3 : Commander in Chief of the American Forces During the War : which Established the Independence of his Country and First : President of the United States