The attack was done in response to previous acts of Barbary pirates based off Tunis and led to the destruction of the local fleet in port, which included English renegades like Jack Ward and Francis Verney.

Some months later, during the Expulsion of the Moriscos, Fajardo was ordered to take command of the fleets of Andalusia and Portugal and disrupt the movements of Barbary pirates in North Africa, while leaving Antonio de Oquendo the rest of the effectives to watch the southern Spanish coast.

[5] Juan found and captured the ship near the island of Limacos,[4] finding out it belonged to Danser's fleet[2] and was carrying a cargo of weapons, with a crew of English and Jews.

[5][6] Resuming the journey, the Spanish explorers sighted then eight sailing ships and four galleys refuged in Algiers, but the harbor was too well defended and Fajardo opted to continue towards Tunis.

[2] The Spanish soldiers reached the port and used incendiary devices to set fire to the 23 ships, which turned out to belong to Danser and pirates and privateers of multiple nationalities.

[2] Seeing that the artillery of La Goulette failed to interrupt the raid, the commander of Tunis, Uthman Dey, mobilized 20,000 soldiers of infantry and cavalry and rushed to the lake.

[11] The captains of Spanish galleys in Naples and Sicily, the Castilian Álvaro de Bazán y Benavides and the Italian Ottavio d'Aragona respectively, continued hunting down pirates after Fajardo's departure.