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.
Drake burned and sunk around 30 ships and destroying supplies, delaying the Armada preparations for nearly a whole year. Although the blow at Cadiz was more an annoyance than a major setback, the English took heart from this singeing of the King of Spain's beard.