About Henry Pigot
Lived 1750 – 1840 (aged 89–90). Henry Pigot was a British military leader.
General Sir Henry Pigot GCMG (1750 – 7 June 1840) was a British Army officer.
Military career Born the son of Admiral Hugh Pigot, Pigot was commissioned as a cornet in 1769. He served in the Netherlands in 1793 and, following the Siege of Malta, accepted the surrender of Valletta from the French forces under General Claude-Henri Belgrand de Vaubois in September 1800.
Pigot was colonel of the 82nd Regiment of Foot (1798–1836) and then of the 38th Regiment of Foot (1836–1840).
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Who was Henry Pigot?
British general
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Henry Pigot was born in 1750.
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Henry Pigot died on 7 June 1840 in London.
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Henry Pigot was a military leader.
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Henry Pigot was British.
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