sentences:  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.On January 1710, the Danish invasion force defeated a smaller Swedish force outside Kristianstad in a small skirmish.On March 10, 1710, the Danish force finally engaged the Swedish army, which had been hastily drafted from the surrounding regions to try and resist the Danes.