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.
Sir Francis Drake, Vice Admiral (1540 - 27 January 1596) was an English sea captain. His exploits were legendary, making him a hero to the English but a pirate to the Spaniard â¦ s. Although he did undertake some exploratory voyages he did not really discover anything new.