Murad Bey mobilized the entire urban population with clubs to resist the French

Evidence

The following day he issued a general call to arms and the people were summoned to the entrenchments. al-Jabartī, who witnessed these momentous events, describes the scene: “People closed their shops and markets, and everyone was in an uproar. The noise and confusion were very great. The shaykhs, the dignitaries and the common people set out with clubs and arms.” — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 632