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.
Thomas Gage said that his death was worth 500 soldiers. Once General George Washington dislodged the British from Boston, Paul Revere and some of Dr. Joseph Warrenâs family moved his body from the first site to Granary Burying Grounds and then eventually placed him in Forest Hills Cemetery where he rests this day.