 Engaging his men of all ranks in the building works, Albuquerque faced a revolt and had to retreat.He came back and reconquered the island in 1515, when he completed and renamed the fort.The Persian Safavid king, Abbas I of Persia (1587–1629), wanted to end Portuguese rule in the south and eventually managed to convince the British East India Company to allow its ships to cooperate with his land forces to seize the island from the Portuguese in 1622.