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.
Drakeâs first job was when he was apprenticed to a man who owned a small coastal freighter. Drake did well and when the man died, he willed Drake the small boat as he had no family of his own. In 1569, Drake married Mary Newman. They had no children and she died in 1581.