Rubicon War

Not to be confused with the Rubicon Incident of 1936.

Rubicon War
Part of the Salisfordian Civil War and Creeperian Conflicts
Date 13 October 1961 – 22 April 1976 (14 years, 6 months, 1 week and 2 days) First phase: 13 October 1961 – 7 July 1964 (2 years, 8 months, 3 weeks and 3 days) Second phase: 15 September 1968 – 22 April 1976 (7 years, 7 months and 1 week) Location San Pablo, Creeperopolis (first phase) San Paolo and Terrano, Salisford (second phase) Result Stalemate Salisfordian victory in the first phase Creeperian victory in the second phase Rubicon Agreement Territorial changes Status quo ante bellum
Belligerents
Creeperopolis	Salisford
Commanders and leaders
Romero II Alfonso Cabañeras Moreno Raimundo Serrano Suñer † Venustiano Zaldívar Herrera Gustau Riviéra e Cabriéra Armando Pacheco Jalisco José Fuentes Castro (WIA) Léonard Ramiéra e Umana Fidel Salinas Quijada	Carlo III Sandro Neri † Teodoro Mattera Antiamo Marchetti Giacomo Conte Omar Bianchi Renzo Testa † Lazzaro Sartori Vincenzo Moretti Ercole Fabbri Tommaso Costantini
Units involved
32nd Army 91st Infantry Division 36th Mechanized Division 22nd Armored Division 30th Artillery Division 18th Air Force Wing	3rd Brigade 147th Paratroopers Regiment 42nd Infantry Regiment 75th Infantry Regiment 4th Armored Regiment 2nd Fusilier Regiment 70th Attack Wing
Strength
25,000 soldiers 500 tanks 250 aircraft	22,500 soldiers 600 tanks 200 aircraft

The Rubicon War (Creeperian Spanish: Guerra del Rubicón; Salisfordian: Guerra del Rubicone) was a war which occurred in to phases between 1961 and 1976.

Background

Rubicon Incident

Further information: Rubicon Incident

In 1936, Salisford moved troops across the border with Castilliano and into Sant Pau (present-day San Pablo), citing historical claims to the northern territories of the region. Castilliano would reject these claims, and moved troops to intercept the Salisfordian soldiers. Both sides clashed and the fighting developed into a 3-week long intense border conflict. Before any side made a breakthrough, the Catholic Imperial Restoration Council (Imperial Council), concerned about the possibility of further escalation between the two nations, stepped in and helped negotiate an end to the fighting.

To convince the dissatisfied Salisfordian administration to agree to end the conflict, Adolfo Cabañeras Moreno, the minister of defense of the Imperial Council, secretly negotiated a deal with the Salisfordians to partition Castilliano sometime in the near future, promising Salisford the northern half of the country. In return, the Salisfordians agreed to send an expeditionary force to assist the Imperial Council in breaking the stalemate which has developed in the Creeperian Civil War.

Annexation of Castilliano

Following the conclusion of the civil war in 1949, Castilliano held a referendum on 1 December 1949 to decide if it should be annexed by Creeperopolis or not. The referendum resulted in favor of annexation by a large margin, but many called into question the legitimacy and the legality of the votes and the referendum itself. Despite the brewing controversy, the ruling party of Castilliano, the right-wing Castillianan Coalition of Autonomous Rights (CCDA), which heavily campaigned in favor of the referendum, accepted the results of the vote and Creeperopolis formally annexed Castilliano on 25 December 1949.

Notably, however, Creeperopolis refused to cede the northern territories of Castilliano to Salisford, as they had agreed to do back in 1936. Alfonso Cabañeras Moreno, Creeperopolis' minister of defense, justified this by stating that because it was his older brother, Adolfo, who had negotiated the deal, he was not under any obligation to follow through with it.

Order of battle

Creeperopolis

Creeperian Army

32nd Army – General Raimundo Serrano Suñer, later General Venustiano Zaldívar Herrera

91st Infantry Division – Lieutenant General Gustau Riviéra e Cabriéra

36th Mechanized Division – Lieutenant General Armando Pacheco Jalisco

22nd Armored Division – Lieutenant General José Fuentes Castro

30th Artillery Division – Lieutenant General Léonard Ramiéra e Umana

Creeperian Air Force

18th Air Force Wing – General Fidel Salinas Quijada

Salisford

Royal Salisfordian Army

3rd Brigade – Lieutenant General Antiamo Marchetti

147th Paratroopers Regiment – Colonel Giacomo Conte

42nd Infantry Regiment – Brigadier General Omar Bianchi

75th Infantry Regiment – Brigadier General Renzo Testa, later Brigadier General Lazzaro Sartori

4th Armored Regiment – Brigadier General Vincenzo Moretti

2nd Fusilier Regiment – Brigadier General Ercole Fabbri

Royal Salisfordian Air Force

70th Attack Wing – Major General Tommaso Costantini

First phase

Guiraiso's town hall begins to burn on 20 December 1962.

Second phase

Creeperian troops outside of Guiraiso in December 1962.

Creeperian soldiers advancing in late 1963.

See also

• Castillianan–Salisfordian Wars