[Verginius Rufus]

Before the battles of Saratoga in 1777, General Burgoyne made a pompous announcement encouraging the Americans in that area to return to loyalty to Britain and hinting that he would unleash his Indian allies on them if they refused. Not exactly the way to win over the hearts and minds of the Americans.

France was trying to impose Napoleon's brother as king of Spain, whom the Spanish did not want, and they used harsh tactics to put down the Spanish uprising (see Goya's painting "The Third of May"). So it probably wasn't hard for the British to find willing collaborators among the Spanish people.

[MUDDOG]

Moreover, when Wellington carried the war into southern France in 1813-14, he continued the same policy, with the result that the local French people would supply the British, but not the French army!