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Catherine was ruthless, which served her well at home and in foreign affairs. She had her weak-kneed Germanophile husband deposed and murdered shortly after. Despite her German ancestry, she ruthlessly pursued Russian interests.

I did not know the British courted her help against the Americans, but I'm not surprised she ignored them. No percentage in that for Mother Russia.

[SunkenCiv]

I think I had an audiobook about The Revolution out of the library once, the British navy had to be shifted out of American duty because C the G made a sort of flanking bluff with the Russian navy.