Losses to the Spanish empire came in the mid-seventeenth century with:
a. The capture of Jamaica by the British in 1655.
b. The colonization of eastern Hispaniola by the French in 1665.
c. The surrender of Cuba to the Dutch in 1659.
d. The failure of sugar plantations in their colony of Saint-Domingue in 1653.
a. The capture of Jamaica by the British in 1655.
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