the result should be changed who finally rennounced to the asiento in the americas britain who launched the massive fleet attack of more than ships over the spanish coasts britain who got defeated at the end britain is always fun see how nationalistic editiors search sources of random authors who never heard about blas de lezo or the battle of cartagena the indias and how the british got humiliated and defeated at the end the war of jenkin's ear was quite clearly a spanish victory that war not only preserved the american portion of spain's empire but it also forced the british to abide by the asiento treaty and not engage in any illegal trade with the spanish colonies the spanish coast guard and navy continued to ruthlessly supress illegal trade and piracy from british merchants