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

Conflicts between Castilliano and Salisford

Further information: Castillianan–Salisfordian Wars

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.

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.

Social unrest in Castilliano

Soldiers of the 32nd Army arresting a group of anti-government protestors in Chalatenango, early-1961.

Order of battle

Creeperopolis

Creeperian Army

32nd Army – General Raimundo Serrano Suñer

91st Infantry Division – Lieutenant General Gustau Riviéra e Cabriéra

67th Infantry Battalion – Brigadier Romulo Enríquez Revelo

74th Infantry Battalion – Brigadier Alexandre Léon e Pérre

75th Infantry Battalion – Brigadier Fabián León Flores

80th Infantry Battalion – Brigadier Maximiliér Alvaréu e Alvaréu

81st Infantry Battalion – Brigadier Sergio Zorro Juárez

16th Engineer Company – Lieutenant Colonel Enrique Hidalgo Fuentes

36th Mechanized Division – Lieutenant General Armando Pacheco Jalisco

16th Mechanized Battalion – Brigadier Cristól Escócia e Piéira

17th Mechanized Battalion – Brigadier Félix Casanova Bermúdez

23rd Mechanized Battalion – Brigadier Xavier Montt Salinas

28th Mechanized Battalion – Brigadier Juan Duarte Linares

30th Mechanized Battalion – Brigadier Pablo Córdoba Galván

17th Engineer Company – Lieutenant Colonel Norberto Ureña Iñez

22nd Armored Division – Lieutenant General José Fuentes Castro

8th Armored Battalion – Brigadier José Nuñez Payés

16th Armored Battalion – Brigadier Marcéu Guerriér e Rosér

22nd Armored Battalion – Brigadier Carles Carriéra e Flors

24th Armored Battalion – Brigadier Vicente Fernández Jalisco

30th Armored Battalion – Brigadier Héctor Rodríguez Molina

30th Artillery Division – Lieutenant General Léonard Ramiéra e Umana

34th Artillery Battalion – Brigadier Jórdi Cadiérs e Guilhém

35th Artillery Battalion – Brigadier Alfonso Dávalos Herrador

43rd Artillery Battalion – Brigadier Danielér Serán e Lóbi

45th Artillery Battalion – Brigadier Gonzalo Sánchez Obregón

Creeperian Air Force

18th Air Force Wing – General Fidel Salinas Quijada

22nd Air Force Division – Lieutenant General Osiel López Pérez

32nd Air Force Division – Lieutenant General Roberto Quijada Ureña

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

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 burning on 7 March 1962.

Second phase

Creeperian troops outside of Guiraiso in February 1969.

Creeperian soldiers on patrol in mid-1971.

See also

Creeperopolis portal Terraconserva portal

• Surian Fishing War, another war in Sur involving Creeperopolis occurring at the same time