Sentence examples for first shot of fire from inspiring English sources

"You never forget your first shot of fire cider," Linda Black Elk said.

It was also during this operation when the first shot of the insurrection was fired.

The first shot of the engagement was fired at Monitor by Virginia.

Marxuach fired a shot from a cannon located at the Santa Rosa battery of "El Morro" fort, in what is considered to be the first shot of World War I fired by the regular armed forces of the United States against any ship flying the colors of the Central Powers, forcing the Odenwald to stop and to return to port where its supplies were confiscated.

Marxuach fired a warning shot from a cannon located at the Santa Rosa battery of El Morro fort, in what is considered to be the first shot of World War I fired by the regular armed forces of the United States against a ship flying the colors of the Central Powers, forcing the Odenwald to stop and to return to port where its supplies were confiscated.

He made a series of bold moves such as sending ships to supply Fort Sumter, thereby forcing the South to fire the first shot of the civil war that his more experienced rivals might not have made.

According to lore, the Union soldier to fire the first shot of the battle was Lt. Marcellus Jones.

"The Ward fired the first shot of the Pacific war," he said.

Lincoln, we read, wanted the war so badly he "succeeded in maneuvering the Confederacy into firing the first shot of the war".

Nothing like honoring a historic baseball feat by firing the first shot of the free-agent season across the Giants' bow.

Michael Cerveris, who portrays Booth, fires the first shot of the show, then, with a replica that another character has brought onstage, turns his gun on himself.