| The two admirals negotiated the release of Turgut Reis in exchange for 3,500 gold | Unable to persuade Barbarossa to switch sides, in October 1541, Charles himself laid siege to Algiers, seeking to end the corsair threat to the Spanish domains and Christian shipping in the western Mediterranean |
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| The King, besides the above land force, will additionally help with his naval force, which will comprise at least 50 vessels, of which 30 , and the rest and other vessels, accompanied by one of the largest and most beautiful carracks that ever was on the sea | Barbarossa, angered by the response, besieged and captured the city |
They subsequently landed at and captured a coastal castle and then headed towards Liguria, where they captured four Genoese galleys near Genoa.
17| Barbarossa was also given the government of the Sanjak "province" of and those of and in the | In May 1526, he landed at in and sacked the city, sank a Spanish galley and a Spanish in the harbor, assaulted in Marche on the and later landed at Cape Spartivento |
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| In June 1526, he landed at and later destroyed the fort at the port of | After capturing a total of 23 ships in less than a month, the brothers sailed back to La Goulette, where they built three more galliots and a gunpowder production facility |
Translated by Maria Alessandra Panzanelli Fratoni.
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