He, too, though, is happy to bash the Germans, playing on Polish fears of alleged Berlin plots to reconquer lands ceded to Poland at the end of the second world war.
These material worries preoccupy them much more than ethnic grudges or the desire to reconquer territory they believe their nation has lost to a neighbour.
IS had occupied parts of the sprawling city for many months, but retaining control of government buildings there was a key part of plans to reconquer the province.
They were responsible for Colombia's first coherent defence policy, whose aim was to reconquer territory from guerrillas and paramilitaries by protecting the civilian population, rather than treating it as a foe.The corollary was to subject the armed forces to far closer civilian control.
Several members of Iraq's Governing Council have suggested that Turkey wants to reconquer oil fields in Kirkuk and Mosul that were once in the Ottoman empire, and give warning that Turkish troops might be attacked by Arabs as well as Kurds.A grumpy welcomeTurkish tankers carrying oil in the restive refining town of Beiji have already been attacked.
Some said they were going to help the Georgians reconquer the region.
He must use his air power to keep IS down while Iraq builds a state that Sunnis can believe in, while he trains a new Iraqi national army to reconquer the country, and while the Syrian rebels become a force that is potent enough to force a political solution on Mr Assad.
It then concluded:Yet even if it produces a cheaper iPhone, pushes deep into China and wows the world with a smart TV, its shares will not reconquer last year's peak.
"When I spoke of painful concessions," he told the interviewer, "I meant that we won't now reconquer Nablus and Jericho [cities ceded to the Palestinians in the early phases of the Oslo process].
Although Russia is too weak to reconquer the region, it is strong enough to threaten its stability and jeopardise its prosperity.
Since petrol prices first rose above $3 a gallon in 2005 Detroit has been trying to reconquer the modest car market instead of relying on sales of expensive, high-margin SUVs and other gas-guzzlers.
