In this way, the Gribeauvalists hoped to forge men, weapons, and tactics into a purposeful "machine" that would prove the most potent military force in Europe. Indeed, their ambition was realized when their mantle was taken up by their successors among the Revolutionary engineers—Lazare Carnot, Claude-Antoine Prieur de la Côte-d'Or, and their fellow savants—when these men found themselves in charge of the state in the years 1793-95. And in the end, their methods and ideologies enabled one of their disciples, the artillerist Napoléon Bonaparte, to make himself Emperor of all the French, and much of the Continent besides.