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Show WHY TWENTY-ONE GUNS? The presidential salute of "il guns was adopted that a uniformity in national salute might be maintained, it being the same number of guns as. tho royal salute of England. The reason why 21 guns should have been selected as the number of guns has been a source of scarrh and guesswork, with no satisfactory results. re-sults. Of the many surmises the two carrying tho most weight of opinion are: First, that 21 was the samo number of years fixed by English Eng-lish law as the ngc of majority; the second that seven was the original salute and three times seven would signify ono seven for each of the divisions di-visions England and Woles, Scotland Scot-land and Ireland. |