The Egyptian Expedition of the General Bonaparte

When the old empress died in november o 17 96, there was no succession struggle. Paul became tsar. Catherine had been very expansionist in her foreign policy. But paul was critical of all that and he actually halted plans for a further campaign south. He also became more personally invested in what revolutionary france was up to. Cifically, it was the egyptian expedition of the now very famous general bonaparte that caught the tzar's attention. The way the russians saw it, russia was concerned about defeating france. Austria was concerned about picking up more territory in italy. A joint british russia invasion of the net