Hindsight has sharp vision.
The humanitarian benefits of French rule in Spain are - of course - well known and were mainly caused by the total lack of an effective ration supply mechanism.
At the French siege of Girona (6 June - 10 December 1809), Reille`s VI Corps lost 15,000 men out of 34,000, over half of them due to sickness and starvation. German contingents record being reduce to boiling up grass to eat.
Please do not refer me to the chapter on French army ration resupply in `Swords`; it is the fiction of what was supposed to happen.