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[[File:RobertPigotByFrancisCotes.jpg|thumb|Portrait by [[Francis Cotes]], {{circa}} 1765]]

[[Major general (United Kingdom)|Major-General]] '''Sir Robert Pigot, 2nd Baronet''' (20 September 1720 – 1 August 1796) was a [[British Army]] officer who served in the [[American Revolutionary War|American War of Independence]].

==Life==
Robert Pigot was born in [[London]], [[England]] in 1720. His two brothers were [[George Pigot, 1st Baron Pigot]], Governor of [[Chennai|Madras]], [[India]] and Admiral [[Hugh Pigot (18th century admiral)|Hugh Pigot]], Commander-in-Chief of the [[Caribbean|West Indies]] fleet. He and his brothers shared [[Huguenot]] ancestry through their grandfather Peter Godde, who had come to England in the late seventeenth century.<ref>{{cite web |first=P. J. |last=Marshall |title=Pigot, George, Baron Pigot (1719–1777) |work=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2004 |url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/22244 | accessdate=30 December 2013}}</ref>

In 1758 Pigot was [[Major (rank)|major]] in the [[10th Regiment of Foot]]. In 1764 he was [[lieutenant colonel]]. From 1769 to 1775 he was the commander of the [[38th Regiment of Foot]].

He also served as a [[member of parliament]] for [[Wallingford (UK Parliament constituency)|Wallingford]] from 1768 to 1772. He was appointed [[Warden of the Mint]] from August, 1771 until his death.<ref>{{cite web| url = https://www.history.ac.uk/publications/office/mint-wardens| title= Wardens of the Mint|publisher= Institute for Historical research|first=J.C.|last = Sainty|accessdate=14 January 2010}}</ref>

On 17 June 1775 he commanded the left flank of the British assault in the [[Battle of Bunker Hill]]. On 9 July he was [[colonel]] in the [[55th Regiment of Foot]]. He was promoted to the permanent grade of colonel for his bravery in the battle of Bunker Hill. He was made a [[major general]] in 1777. Pigot was placed in command in [[Rhode Island]] and made a [[lieutenant general]] in 1782. In the [[Battle of Rhode Island]] he fought with 3,000 men against 5,000 men under General [[John Sullivan (general)|John Sullivan]]. He inherited the [[Pigot Baronets|baronetcy]] of his older brother Lord George Pigot (it had been created with [[special remainder]]) and the [[Patshull Hall]] estate in 1777. He also inherited a one-third share of the [[Pigot Diamond]], which remained in the family until sold in a lottery in 1801. On 8 February he resigned and died 1 August 1796 in [[Stafford|Stafford, England]].

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 | years=1768&ndash;1772
 | with = [[Sir John Aubrey, 6th Baronet|John Aubrey]]
 | before=[[Sir John Gibbons, 2nd Baronet|Sir John Gibbons]] | before2=[[George Pigot, 1st Baron Pigot|George Pigot]]
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 | title=[[Pigot Baronets|Baronet]]<br />'''(of Patshull)'''
 | years=1777&ndash;1796
 | before= [[George Pigot, 1st Baron Pigot|George Pigot]]
 |  after=[[Sir George Pigot, 3rd Baronet|George Pigot]]
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