Considering a Setting and Synopsis

While doing some research on pirates in the early 19th century, I was pretty pleased to find that there were Pirates who operated in North Africa, dubbed 'Barbary Pirates', I was happy to find this, since I didn't want to have my Soldier be a typical western idea of a Pirate: Jolly roger, Pirate hat and a parrot on his shoulder, now that I am going to soon start moving on from the silhouette stage it's important that I have a more specific idea of how the pirate will look, so I will specifically be looking at the aesthetics of the Barbary Pirates.

Funny coincidence, one of the reference images I mentioned seeing of pirates in turbans, happens to be from the Barbary Pirates Wikipedia page, it's the image that initially inspired me to give the pirate a turban.

Source:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/BainbridgeTribute.jpg

It seems that around the time of the Battle of Trafalgar, there was some sort of peace treaty in place to stop the Pirates attacking boats from certain countries, I think Britain may have been among them, and the Pirates did operate mainly along the Mediterranean as far as I can tell, so maybe the Battle of Trafalgar could act as a sort of distraction for the Barbary's to perform some kind of heist unnoticed, the story could take place just after the events and the Barbary Soldier is on his way back from the heist.