Bull Run
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Battles
- First Battle of Bull RunFirst Battle of Bull RunFirst Battle of Bull Run, also known as First Manassas , was fought on July 21, 1861, in Prince William County, Virginia, near the City of Manassas...
(First Manassas), the first major battle of the American Civil War - Second Battle of Bull RunSecond Battle of Bull RunThe Second Battle of Bull Run or Second Manassas was fought August 28–30, 1862, as part of the American Civil War. It was the culmination of an offensive campaign waged by Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia against Union Maj. Gen...
(Second Manassas), a later battle that took place at Bull Run
Place names
In the United States:- Bull Run, VirginiaBull Run, VirginiaBull Run is a census-designated place in Prince William County, Virginia. The population was 11,337 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Bull Run is located at ....
, a census-designated place in Prince William County - Bull Run (Occoquan River)Bull Run (Occoquan River)Bull Run is a free-flowing tributary stream of the Potomac River that originates from a spring in the Bull Run Mountains in Loudoun County, Virginia, and flows south to the Occoquan River...
, a stream in Fairfax, Loudoun, and Prince William counties, Virginia, site of the Civil War battles - Bull Run MountainsBull Run MountainsThe Bull Run Mountains are a mountain range of the Blue Ridge Mountains in northern Virginia in the United States. Located approximately east of the main chain, across the Loudoun Valley...
, a mountain range in Fauquier, Loudoun, and Prince William counties, Virginia - Bull Run Mountains (Nevada)Bull Run Mountains (Nevada)The Bull Run Mountains is a mountain range in northern Elko County, in the northeastern section of the state of Nevada in the Great Basin region of the western United States. Porter Peak, at is the highest point of the range....
, a mountain range in Elko County, Nevada - Bull Run River (Oregon)Bull Run River (Oregon)The Bull Run River is a tributary of the Sandy River in the U.S. state of Oregon. Beginning at the lower end of Bull Run Lake in the Cascade Range, it flows generally west through the Bull Run Watershed Management Unit , a restricted area meant to protect the river and its tributaries from...
- Bull Run Hydroelectric ProjectBull Run Hydroelectric ProjectThe Bull Run Hydroelectric Project was a Portland General Electric development in the Sandy River basin in the U.S. state of Oregon. Originally built between 1908 and 1912 near the town of Bull Run, it supplied hydroelectric power for the Portland area for nearly a century, until it was removed in...
, a dam project on the Bull Run River - Bull Run, OregonBull Run, OregonBull Run is an unincorporated community in Clackamas County, Oregon, United States, about northeast of Sandy near the Bull Run River.The first post office in the locale was "Unavilla", established in 1893. The name was changed to "Bullrun" in 1895, and to Camp Namanu in 1939. The post office was...
, an unincorporated community named for the river - Bull Run National ForestBull Run National ForestBull Run National Forest was established as the Bull Run Forest Reserve by the General Land Office in Oregon on June 17, 1892 with . After the transfer of federal forests to the U.S. Forest Service in 1905, it became a National Forest on March 4, 1907...
, a former national forest
- Bull Run Hydroelectric Project
Other uses
- Bull Run (novel)Bull Run (novel)Bull Run is a historical novel for children by Paul Fleischman, published in 1993. It consists of sixteen monologues by participants in the First Battle of Bull Run in 1861...
, a young adult novel by Newbery Honor winner Paul Fleischman about 16 characters at the First Battle of Bull Run - BullrunBullrunBullrun is an American reality television series based on the trans-American Bullrun road rally of the same name. The televised version has 12 teams compete in a 4,000-mile 18-day road rally to win the grand prize of US$200,000. Bullrun uses a modified 12-car rally format.-Season 1:Season 1 of...
, a reality television show on Spike TV based on the Bullrun road rally - Running of the Bulls (Spanish Encierro), events such as found in Pamplona, Spain
- A "bull run" or "bull market", an economic trend; see Market trendsMarket trendsA market trend is a putative tendency of a financial market to move in a particular direction over time. These trends are classified as secular for long time frames, primary for medium time frames, and secondary for short time frames...