In France they would have brought down artillery, and played on it with twenty-four pounders.

In Cambridge nobody heeded the disturbance--it was a Town and Gown row.
The row arose at a boat-race.

The Town boat (manned by eight stout Bargees, with the redoubted Rullock for stroke) had bumped the Brazenose light oar, usually at the head of the river.

High words arose regarding the dispute.

After returning from Granchester, when the boats pulled back to Christchurch meadows, the disturbance between the Townsmen and the University youths--their invariable opponents--grew louder and more violent, until it broke out in open battle.