Heading out of town, make time to visit the famous battlefield where, in 1815, Andrew Jackson foiled a British invasion.

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The Carolinas were invaded by the British in the Revolutionary war, and during one invasion the Brits stepped into a trap that the Americans set.

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In 1944, the British Broadcasting Corporation aired a coded message intended to warn the French resistance that the D-Day invasion was imminent.

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