... a time when Russia especially, but also Prussia and Austria, were more concerned with events in Poland to commit enough energy to dealing with the French. Although worried by the regicide in Paris, and determined to ensure that the revolutionary fervour did not spread to within their own borders, the immediate interests of the three Eastern powers was to secure a beneficial settlement from the partition of Poland. This was particularly so for Catherine II of Russia who did not yet have the strategic threat from French expansion but who did have the Ottoman Empire to contend with on her borders. It was not only these powers who pursued their own interests. Britain, a chiefly maritime power put more effort into attacking French colonies abroad for their own territorial and commercial gain, than with fighting the revolutionaries on the continent, where Britain's offering of troops comprised mostly of German ...

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