To Americans and the French, a billion means a thousand millions (1,000,000,000, or 10 to the ninth, what some British call a milliard, a term that seems never to have been widely accepted).
According to Anglo history, Sir Francis Drake died of dysentery on January 27, 1596, aged 55 while anchored off the coast of Puerto Bello, Panama after an unsuccessful campaig â¦ n against the Spanish. He was buried at sea in a lead coffin, near Puerto Bello.
Francis died at the Chateau chÃ¢teau De rambouillet on 31 march, 1547 on his son and'successor s 28th. Birthday it is said that he died complaining about the weight of a crown that he had first perceived as a gift From. God he was interred with his first, Wife, Claude duchess Of, brittany In Saint Denis. basilica