[1] Like his father, António Correia sought adventure and political intrigue in Portugal’s expanding empire in the Indian Ocean.
[2] In 1521, Muqrin stopped the payments to the Hormuzis[3] prompting the Portuguese to appoint António Correia to head a naval force to subdue Bahrain.
With their Hormuzi allies, the Portuguese force landed on 27 June 1521 and fought the Jabrids at a battle near present-day Karbabad.
The Bahraini force was beaten and Muqrin captured and, after his death from a wound to the thigh sustained in the battle, beheaded by the Persian admiral of the Hormuzis, who sent the head back to Hormuz.
[4] The Portuguese immediately started building a huge fort complex at Qalat Al Bahrain in order to control their new possession.