It's a fake objection because the text never says or implies anything of the sort.
Here are some references:
In the Federalist Papers, James Madison commented about "a corps of ten thousand troops."
The consequence was that the city was put under the ban of the empire, and the Duke of Bavaria, though director of another circle, obtained an appointment to enforce it. He soon appeared before the city with a corps of ten thousand troops, and finding it a fit occasion, as he had secretly intended from the beginning, to revive an antiquated claim, on the pretext that his ancestors had suffered the place to be dismembered from his territory, he took possession of it in his own name, disarmed, and punished the inhabitants, and reannexed the city to his domains.
(Position Papers, Federalist Papers, 19. The Subject Continued — Madison ¶12)
The Federalist Papers
October 27, 1787 - May 28, 1788
In The American Revolution, we read:
13. And the writings were signed, and the signets of the two chief captains were prefixed thereunto, in the seventeen hundred and seventy-seventh year of the Christian era, in the tenth month, and on the thirteenth day of the month, were they executed.
14. And there were taken first and last, of the army of Britain, according to the written record of Ramsay the scribe, ten thousand men ; and large stores of all kinds of implements for war !
15. Thus the army of Britain, became captives to the people of the Provinces.
(The American Revolution 34:13–15)
Other examples:
That Popish Queen of Scotland spake out and professed she dreaded more the Prayers of Mr. Knox (a godly Nonconformist) then an Army of ten Thousand men. And will you so officiously serve them, by disarming so many ten Thousands of your friends of their best weapons? Oh ungrateful England! dost thou thus requite the Saints for all the good they have been Instruments to procure unto thee?
(17c: 1660s; 1668, N00082 / 1. YDING FROM ROME;,24¶)
3. How much are we weakened by this loss: faithful and zealous Rulers are the Chariots and Horsmen, i. e. the defence and safeguard of Israel. The people made that an Argument to diswade David from going any more into the battel, because they counted him worth ten thousand of them: we lose many in one, when any such are taken away: such wounds are like the cutting off the hands of a people, yea, stopping their breath, we have so many the fewer intercessors for us at the throne of grace;
(17c: 1670s; 1679, N00216,70¶)
there is no such desolation and impoverishing brought upon a Land, as when Death comes commissioned by God, to sieze, gather up, and carry away from us those Jewels; one of them is of more worth than ten thousand of wicked Men, and a greater loss it is (whether Men will believe it or no) to be stript of one of them, then of a multitude of those unprofitable things that cumber the Ground, and are a burden to the Earth they tread upon.
(17c: 1680s; 1683, N00280,69¶)
Oh! That very much of This might be done among us! How doth an Army of Thrice Ten Thousand men, presently Turn from East to West, because Every One Turns One?
(17c: 1690s; 1699, N00725 / 1.4,58¶)
but when the Israelites had joined battle with them, I mean the two tribes before mentioned, they fought gloriously, and slew above ten thousand of them, and put the rest to flight;
(Josephus, Ant., 5.2:2)
When, therefore, the number of the Hebrews that came to Saul amounted to about ten thousand, he pursued the enemy, who were scattered all over the country
(Josephus, Ant., 6.6:3)
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