In April 1865, Colonel John Pemberton was wounded in battle and like amny others became addicted to the morphine he used to make it less painfull. To try and counter his addiction he began exprementing with cocoa and cocoa wines. Ending with him creating his own verision of Vin Marianai containing kola nut and damiana he called this drink Pemberton's french wine cocoa. In 1865 Pemberton felt forced to do a alchoholic free verision of his drink. Pemberton worked out a pair of directions for the preparations that eventually included mixing the base syrup with carbonated water by accident while trying to do another glass.