Bull Run

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Bull Run or Bullrun may refer to:

Battles

• First Battle of Bull Run (First Manassas), 1861, the first major battle of the American Civil War
• Second Battle of Bull Run (Second Manassas), 1862, a later battle also at Bull Run
• Operation Bull Run, a military operation of the Iraq War and part of Operation Marne Torch

Places in the United States

• Bull Run (Occoquan River), a stream in Fairfax, Loudoun, and Prince William counties, Virginia, site of the Civil War battles
• Bull Run, Fairfax County, Virginia, an unincorporated community west of Centreville, about 1 mile east of the stream
• Bull Run, Prince William County, Virginia, a census-designated place northwest of Manassas, about 1 mile west of the stream
• Bull Run Mountain Estates, Virginia, a census-designated place in Prince William County, about 3 miles southwest of the stream
• Bull Run Regional Park, on the stream in Fairfax County
• Bull Run Mountains, a mountain range in Fauquier, Loudoun, and Prince William counties, Virginia
• Bull Run Mountains (Nevada), a mountain range in Elko County, Nevada
• Bull Run River (Oregon)
  • Bull Run Hydroelectric Project, a dam project on the Bull Run River
  • Bull Run, Oregon, an unincorporated community named for the river
  • Bull Run National Forest, a former national forest
• Bull Run Fossil Plant also known as Bull Run Steam Plant, a coal-fired electric generating station owned by the Tennessee Valley Authority

Entertainment

• Bull Run (novel), a young adult novel by Paul Fleischman about the First Battle of Bull Run
• Bullrun Rally, an automobile rally
• Bullrun (TV series), a reality television show on Spike TV based on the Bullrun road rally
• Bull running, a defunct event once common in England, in which townsfolk chased down a bull then slaughtered it
  • Stamford bull run, the last surviving such event, ending in 1839
• Running of the bulls, events in Spain, Portugal, France, and Mexico, in which people run in front of a number of bulls, often used in bullfighting after the run

Other uses

• Bullrun (decryption program), a secret anti-encryption program run by the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA)
• Bull run, or bull market, a rising market trend in economics