History by Polybius. Volume IV. French edition translated from Greek by Dom Vincent Thuillier. Comments of Military Science enriched with critical and historical notes by M. De Folard. Paris, chez Pierre Gandouin, Julien-Michel Gandouin, Pierre-Francois Giffart and Nicolas-Pierre Armand, 1728. The Battle of the Rhone Crossing. Second Punic War. The Carthaginian army under the command of Hannibal Barca, during the march to Italy, 218 BC, found an army of the gallic Volcae tribe, on the Rhone River (present-day France). Disposition of Hannibal's troops for the passage of the river and the Gauls troops to defense it. Engraving.