"Deux hommes se battaient, la police est arrivée."

Translation: Two men were fighting; the police arrived.

[Poef9]

Wouldn't you use a semicolon in the French as well?

[Colette111958]

Two independent clauses need to be separated by a period or a semicolon. Otherwise, it's a "comma splice" in English (i.e., incorrect).

[palmiro77]

"Two men were fighting with one another". In my book, that's the "preferred" translation.