Bull Run

(noun)

A battle, also known as the "Battle of First Manassas" (the name used by Confederate forces), fought on July 21, 1861, in Prince William County, Virginia, near the city of Manassas.

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  • The Battle of Bull Run

    • The Battle of Bull Run, the first major battle of the Civil War, demonstrated to the public that the conflict would not be resolved quickly or easily.
    • The First Battle of Bull Run, called the "Battle of First Manassas" by the Confederacy, was fought on July 21, 1861, in Prince William County, Virginia, near the city of Manassas.
    • This figure shows the direction of Union attack and Confederate reinforcement at the First Battle of Bull Run.

  • The Second Bull Run and the Battle of Antietam

    • Following victory in the Second Battle of Bull Run, Lee unsuccessfully attempted to invade the North in the Battle of Antietam.
    • The Second Battle of Bull Run, or Second Manassas, was fought August 28–30, 1862, as part of the American Civil War.
    • The Union's left flank was crushed, and the army was driven back to Bull Run.
    • Union Defense of Chin Ridge at the Second Battle of Bull Run
    • Analyze the Second Battle of Bull Run and the Battle of Antietam

  • McClellan's Peninsular Campaign

    • President Lincoln eventually ordered the Army of the Potomac back to the D.C. area to support Major General John Pope’s forces in the Northern Virginia Campaign and the Second Battle of Bull Run.
    • Nonetheless, Confederate morale was high following the battles, and Lee continued his aggressive strategies in the Second Battle of Bull Run and the Maryland Campaign.

  • Stalemate in the Eastern Theater

    • The Second Battle of Bull Run, fought August 28–30, 1862, was the culmination of Robert E.

  • The Rise of Wilson

    • Defeating Theodore Roosevelt's third-party "Bull Moose" candidacy in 1912, Wilson went on to enact sweeping Progressive reforms of his own.
    • Running against Progressive ("Bull Moose") Party candidate Theodore Roosevelt and Republican candidate William Howard Taft, Wilson was elected president as a Democrat with a wide margin of victory in 1912.
    • As a result of Taft's success in securing the nomination, Roosevelt and his group of disgruntled party members officially split from the party to create the Progressive Party (or "Bull Moose Party") ticket, splitting the Republican vote in the 1912 election.

  • The Neopalatial Period

    • The Minoan culture appears to also be closely linked with the bull.
    • Bulls are often depicted in mural frescoes and many bull figurines and rhytons have been excavated .
    • Images of the bull are often accompanied one or more additional human figures, some of whom often appear to be engaged with the bull by leaping over its back.
    • Frescoes also depict these bull-leaping scenes; abstracted bull-horn shapes may have been used in Minoan architecture.
    • The numerous examples of bull imagery in Minoan culture point to the significance of the animal, but its precise cultural significance for the Minoans is still unknown.

  • Trends in Markets

    • A secular bear market consists of smaller bull markets and larger bear markets, while a secular bull market consists of larger bull markets and smaller bear markets.
    • In a secular bull market, the prevailing trend is "bullish" or upward-moving.
    • A bull market is associated with increasing investor confidence, and increased investing in anticipation of future price increases.
    • A market bottom is a trend reversal, the end of a market downturn, and precedes the beginning of an upward moving trend (bull market).
    • The bull and bear represent the two major forms of market trend.

  • Minoan Sculpture

    • The Bull Leaper bronze, depicting a bull and an acrobat, was created as single group.
    • The bull stands frozen in a flying gallop, while a leaper appears to be flipping over his back.
    • The acrobat's feet are planted firmly on the bull's rump, and the figure bends backwards with its arms planted on the bull's head, perhaps preparing to launch off of the bull.
    • The two figures, bull and man, mirror each other, as the bull's back sways in the gallop and the man's back is arched in a deep back bend.
    • Experts believe that thin gold wires were used to suspend the figure over a bull.

  • Measuring a Successful Segmentation

    • Red Bull has been an enormous hit with its target youth segment across the globe.
    • Red Bull's targeted approach wins across the globe.
    • Austria-based Red Bull is a company with one product, an energy drink containing the amino-acid Taurine.
    • Dietrich Mateschitz launched Red Bull in 1987.
    • Red Bull used Collegiate Brand Managers to promote the drink via free samples handed out at student parties.

  • The Progressive Insurgency and the Election of 1912

    • The United States presidential election of 1912 was a three-way contest between incumbent William Howard Taft (renominated by the Republican Party with the support of the conservative wing), former president Theodore Roosevelt (nominated by the Progressive, or Bull-MooseParty), and Democrat Woodrow Wilson.
    • Debs had run for president in 1900, 1904, and 1908, primarily to encourage the local effort, and he did so again in 1912.
    • Failing to make itself a believable third party, the Bull Moose Party ended up losing strength.