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.
English navigator and privateer, Francis Drake. Miniature from the studio of Nicholas Hilliard, c1591. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images) A few weeks later, Drake set sail for a second time. He did not return to England for nearly three years, until after completing his circumnavigation mission. Alongside his exploratory successes in sailing across the earth, Sir Francis Drake was also one of the most prominent naval leaders of the Spanish Armada in 1588. Here, we look at the seamanâs lifeâ¦ Born: c1540 in Tavistock, Devon. Died: 28 January 1596, off of the coast of Portobelo, Panama. Remembered for: Being one of the most famous seamen of the 16 th century and for becoming the first Englishman to circumnavigate the world.