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A twenty one gun salute is a military (army and navy) honour for Heads of State. This is thought to come about for the early days of gunpowder which was very hard to keep dry on ships. So naval ships would fire a seven gun salute, which forts on land had to answer with a ratio of 3 to 1, this is where the number 21 comes from.
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