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.
Quick Answer. Sir Francis Bacon, despite being schooled at home in an impoverished family after the death of his father, went on to study at Trinity College in Cambridge at the age of 12, and was killed by pneumonia at 65 after attempting to discover how long a chicken would remain preserved if stuffed with snow.