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Henry Pigot
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.〔(Oxford Dictionary of National Biography )〕 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.〔 He went on to be Civil Commissioner of Malta in February 1801.〔(World Statesmen )〕 As civil commissioner, he accepted the demolition of the majority of the fortifications of Valletta, but this act was never done and the city walls survive largely intact to this day. Pigot was colonel of the 82nd Regiment of Foot and then of the 38th Regiment of Foot.〔 He was appointed a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George in 1837.〔(The Peerage.com )〕
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