sentences:  Although all expeditionary warfare until the invention of the combustion engine was largely dependent on the sailing vessels, it was with the creation of sophisticated rigging systems of the European Renaissance that the Age of Sail allowed a significant expansion in expeditionary warfare, notably by the European colonial empires.Some have argued that this was the first revolution in military affairs that changed national strategies, operational methods and tactics both at sea and on the land.One notable example of this evolution was the French Invasion of Egypt (1798).