When Geoffrey and his command are 60 miles from Batum, they are ambushed by local tribesmen. The camera gives a close up of one of these tribesmen firing his flintlock. But the frizzen is forward, rendering it inoperable. The frizzen needs to be back (and over the black powder filled pan) in order for the cock (with its flint) to strike it, create sparks, and rain those sparks down on the black powder in the pan (as the cock also pushes the frizzen forward thereby exposing the black powder in the pan). When the sparks fall on the black powder, they ignite the black powder, which flashes, through the touchhole into the chamber of the flintlock, which in turn ignites the main charge, and sends the ball on its way out of the mussel of the flintlock toward its target. But if the frizzen is forward, there is nothing for the flint in the cock to strike, and ultimately set off the main charge. Therefore, with its frizzen forward, a flintlock is inoperable, meaning this weapon could not and did not actually fire.
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