2014 Event Kurdish peshmerga fighters are able to recapture part of the Mosul Dam after U.S. airstrikes push back Islamic State militants 1951 Event During Korean War, U.S. / U.N. forces recapture Seoul 1950 Event U.N. troops in Korean War recapture South Korean capital of Seoul 1944 Event Russians recapture Crimea by taking Sevastopol 1943 Event Soviets recapture Rostov 1863 Event Battle of Galveston, Texas-Confederates recapture the city 1673 Event Dutch recapture New York from English; regained by English in 1674
