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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A small stream of northeast Virginia southwest of Washington, DC, near Manassas. It was the site of two important Civil War battles (July 21, 1861, and August 29–30, 1862), both Confederate victories. They are also known as the Battles of Manassas.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun either of two battles during the American Civil War (1861 and 1862); Confederate forces defeated the Federal army in both battles
- noun a creek in northeastern Virginia where two battles were fought in the American Civil War
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Examples
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Our army has fought at a place called Bull Run, and been terribly defeated. "
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As far back as August 1861, when city marshal John Van Buren Perry, a transplanted New Yorker, enlisted fellow Unionists to pummel pro-southern sympathizers celebrating the Confederate victory at Bull Run, local sentiment strongly favored the North.
LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010
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But when the Union was turned back at Bull Run and the Allies first landed at Omaha Beach, victory was very much in doubt.
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As far back as August 1861, when city marshal John Van Buren Perry, a transplanted New Yorker, enlisted fellow Unionists to pummel pro-southern sympathizers celebrating the Confederate victory at Bull Run, local sentiment strongly favored the North.
LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010
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A man who'd stood under the withering fire at Bull Run and Williamsburg needn't fear a drunk lieutenant, even one from General Butler's staff, especially a greenhorn as useless as Langford.
Nutrition 2010
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They started to stampede for the bridge over Bull Run.
Louisa May Alcott Susan Cheever 2010
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The clashes between protesters and police in the streets of Berkeley, Chicago, and Detroit were far less violent than the bloody battles between Union and Confederate armies that took in place at Bull Run, Antietam, and Gettysburg.
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Hennessy, Return to Bull Run, Chapters 11–16, quote on p.
Cavalryman of the Lost Cause Jeffry D. Wert 2008
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He continues: A civil war that, in many ways, began at Bull Run, Virginia, on July 21, 1861, ended 147 years later via a ballot box in the very same state.
Archive 2008-11-01 Tenured Radical 2008
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The battlefield simulation casts you as the eminent general, commanding the Confederacy in engagements such as Gettysburg, Bull Run and Fredericksburg.
Try, Try Again 2008
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