北方人本来期望联邦军会在马纳萨斯战役中获胜，他们认为如果联邦军在美国内战初期能够取得一次重大胜利，那么南方的邦联军就会因此而失败。

Northerners had expected to win the battle of Bull Run. They believed the Confederacy would fall if the Union won a big military victory early in the war.

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起初的一次战役发生在现在的弗吉尼亚州马纳萨斯国家战场公园。

One of the first battles took place at what is now Manassas National Battlefield Park in Virginia.

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