Based on Captain Cook's journals, the local Eora people had no weapons. It was determined 247 soldiers was enough for the First Fleet to handle any local resistance.
The Spanish invaded the Inca empire with even less soldiers, it was 174 from memory? They did kidnap and kill their King though which disrupted the Inca's chain of command.
Phony respect for "Aboriginal Elders", page-22
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