Battle of Helsingborg 1710
Recorded location from Wikidata; battle sites are often approximate.
Key facts
| Date | 10 March 1710 | Wikidata |
|---|---|---|
| Year | 1710 | Wikidata P585 (point in time) |
| Era | Early modern (1500–1799) | derived from year |
| Location | Sweden | Natural Earth (modern borders) |
| Continent | Europe | Natural Earth |
| War / conflict | Great Northern War | Wikidata P361 |
| Participants | Denmark, Sweden | Wikidata P710 |
| Coordinates | 56.0775, 12.7200 | Wikidata P625 |
About the battle
The Battle of Helsingborg was the last major engagement of the Great Northern War to take place on Swedish soil. It resulted in a decisive victory of a Swedish force of 14,000 men under the command of Magnus Stenbock against a Danish force of equal strength under the command of Jørgen Rantzau, ensuring that Denmark's final effort to regain the Scanian territories that it had lost to Sweden in 1658 failed. The battle was fought on 10 March 1710 (N.S.) in the province of Scania, just outside the city of Helsingborg, and directly on the Ringstorp heights just north-east of the city.
Denmark–Norway had been forced out of the Great Northern War by the Treaty of Traventhal in 1700, but had long planned on reopening hostilities with the goal of reconquering the lost provinces of Scania, Halland and Blekinge. After the Swedish defeat at Poltava in 1709, the Danes saw an opportunity and declared war on Sweden the same year. The declaration of war arrived at the Swedish state council on 18 October 1709. The pretext given was that Sweden had been intentionally trying to avoid paying the Sound Dues, and that the population of Scania, Halland, Blekinge and Bohuslän had been mistreated by the Swedish.
In January 1710, the Danish invasion force defeated a smaller Swedish force outside Kristianstad in a small skirmish.
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