Rubicon War
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The Rubicon War (Creeperian Spanish: Guerra del Rubicón; Salisfordian: Guerra del Rubicone) was a war which occurred in to phases between 1961 and 1976.
Contents
Background
Previous conflicts with Castilliano
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.
Despite the previous agreement to cede Castillianan land to Salisford, Creeperopolis refused to cede any land to Salisford after Castilliano's annexation. Alfonso Cabañeras Moreno, who had succeeded his older his brother as minister of defense in 1944, stated that he was under obligation to fulfill the agreement as the agreement was made by his older brother and not himself. He also stated that the annexation referendum was for Castilliano in its entirety, and that the land promised to Salisford was included in that referendum regardless.
Castillianan Insurgency
Prelude
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
- 32nd Army – General Raimundo Serrano Suñer, later General Venustiano Zaldívar Herrera
- 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
- 3rd Brigade – Lieutenant General Antiamo Marchetti
- Royal Salisfordian Air Force
- 70th Attack Wing – Major General Tommaso Costantini
First phase
Low-level fighting
Second phase
Peace agreement
Aftermath
Casualties
Effect on bilateral relations
See also
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- Surian Fishing War, another war in Sur involving Creeperopolis occurring at the same time