Same here. Since the imperial soldiers tend to meet the desricption of the soldiers of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic time periods, I tend to believe that the Lego Pirates date in that era. There were still pirates during that period, although it was not the golden age. The islanders also represent the Polynesian cultures and most of them were not discovered by Europeans until the British started to explore that region in the mid to late 1700's. When I build with my Spanish soliders though, I base the time period off of the late 1400's to the late 1500's.