The plotters had yet to make enough progress raising troops, and Kosciuszko demanded that unless they guaranteed one hundred thousand soldiers, the battle would be pointless. He asked them to send him a list showing the number of people and guns, and the amounts of ammunition and provisions, that they had at their disposal, as well as the number of enemy soldiers and garrisons stationed in Poland. He promised that he would return to Saxony to meet with the exiled political leaders only after he received the information that he needed to reassess the situation.
