“The Seven Years’ War created a new balance of power in European and global politics. American independence in the Atlantic world, the 1768–1774 Ottoman–Russian War, and the first partition of Poland in 1772 fundamentally reshaped the balance of power in Eastern and Central Europe. As a result of these developments, England paid greater attention to Eastern Europe, particularly the Black Sea region. This concern reached its peak during the 1791 Ochakov debate. Russia’s expansion into the Black S ...