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 group takes traditional bluegrass and roots-rock and modernizes them with a little bit of British Invasion and even a little bit of punk.

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Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata), of which Khyber is a part, is essentially a buffer between Afghanistan and Pakistan, and was carved by British colonial rulers out of Afghan territory as a bulwark against a possible Russian invasion of British India.

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In 1982 the country's military dictators gambled that grabbing the islands, a far-flung relic of the British empire, by military invasion would allow them to cling to power on a wave of popular acclaim.

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Sensing a hunger for foreign acts before the British invasion, the Bronx-born Mr. Gottehrer claimed his own band, the Strangeloves, was from Australia a gimmick, he said, that boosted booking fees.

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In the days before the invasion British intelligence became aware that a military crisis was fast approaching.

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Adebolajo had been a follower of Al-Muhajiroun, a British group of Islamic extremists virulently opposed to British participation in the invasion of Iraq and openly supportive of al Qaeda, according to several Al-Muhajiroun insiders.

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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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