The Warsaw Uprising of 1794 or Warsaw Insurrection ( ) was an armed insurrection Hostile_encounter by the people of Warsaw early in the Kościuszko Uprising .

It began Process_start on 17 April 1794 , soon after Tadeusz Kościuszko 's victory at the Battle of Racławice .

Kościuszko 's envoy , Tomasz Maruszewski , and Ignacy Działyński and others had been laying Placing the groundwork for the uprising Change_of_leadership since early 1793 .

In both , the Polish forces retreated Escaping before the numerically superior Russian forces , though they offered Giving significantly more resistance in the south , thanks to the effective leadership of Polish commanders Prince Józef Poniatowski and Tadeusz Kościuszko .