This is a bit free thinking but as you are an expert on both the Longbow and musket do you think that a 1000 English Long bowmen in their prime could have caused havoc at Waterloo as the Longbow was not eclipsed as a weapon until the the late 19th C? Geoff
1000 archers, with the skills and weapons of their Agincourt forebears, could have destroyed a French division at Waterloo. The longbow had a greater range than a musket, was far more accurate, and had a rate of fire ten times as fast. The trouble was that it took at least ten years to train an archer, and there were no bowmen available. Wellington actually enquired about raising a corps of longbowmen, but was told the skill had been lost - alas.