Capture of Béjaïa (1555)

[4] Governor Don Alfonso de Peralta, surrounded in the Kasbah with the rest of his troops, surrendered on September 27, after 25 days of siege without food or ammunition.

The Spanish force was defeated, but Salah Rais promised that Alonso Peralta would be allowed to leave unharmed with 40 men of his choice.

[2] Salah Raïs taking prisoner all the Spaniards in the place with the exception of Governor Peralta and his retinue was therefore considered, according to Marmol's version, as having breached his word.

Don Alfonso de Peralta returned to Spain aboard a French caravel, he was severely criticized and was eventually arrested by order of Charles V for his failure and was executed in the main square of Valladolid.

This taking possession of the city of Bougie by the regency of Algiers ruined the hopes of the Sultan of Kalâa to restore the old medieval kingdom of Béjaïa.

Spanish Fort Barral, also known as bordj Moussa in Bejaia
Bordj Moussa