In the year 218 B.C., Publius Cornelius Scipio, consul of Rome, had trouble organizing an army to sail to Spain because of the increasing Gaulish presence in the Po Valley and internal problems in Rome. By the summer of 218 B.C., he had landed at the mouth of the Rhone River and was surprised to find that Hannibal had already crossed the Rhone and had gone upriver on an unknown mission.
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Forward, you madman, and hurry across those horrid Alps so that you may become the delight of schoolboys"