I love that angle, but you’ve got it slightly wrong—coffee first hit the Ottoman court before it hit the front lines. The sultans started pouring it to keep their guards alert, not just to gossip. Then the cafés sprouted, and suddenly every tavern became a tavern for plotters, a place where soldiers would rehearse sieges over a pot of dark liquid. They called it “the brain‑gun” because you could drink a cup and recite siege plans faster than a bored officer could draw a map. And yeah, sometimes the brew was the carrier of a smuggled telegram, but that was more a trick of the trade routes than a strategic move. If you want to talk about how coffeehouses shaped treaties, you’ll find that diplomats would sit there for hours, sipping, debating, and by the time they left, they'd signed a treaty under the weight of caffeine and tension. That's the real history, not the romanticized legend you’re starting with. Let's dig deeper—maybe we can find the exact first treaty that mentioned a cup of coffee.