José Antonio Mijares

José Antonio Mijares, (1819–1847), Mexican Army Lieutenant that led the Mexican resistance force against the American garrison of San José del Cabo in the Battle of San José del Cabo where he was killed leading the assault.

Jose Antonio Mijares was born in Santander, Spain, and came to Mexico City, and became a citizen of Mexico. He joined the Mexican Navy in 1842 and participated in the Naval Battle of Campeche, becoming a Lieutenant. Following the Texas Revolution, Mijares retired from the navy and married Dolores Aviles in June 1847.

During the Mexican American War, prompted him to join the Mexican Army. As a Lieutenant, he was sent to Baja California Sur, joining the command of Captain Manuel Pineda Munoz, who had defeated a U. S. Navy attempt to capture Mulege in the Battle of Mulege and was moving south to attack American forces in La Paz.

Pineda sent Lt. Mijares and bajacalifornio guerrilla leader Jose Matias Moreno with about 100 men to San José del Cabo, where the U. S. Navy Commodore William Shubrick had left a garrison of four passed midshipmen and twenty marines, and twenty friendly bajacalifornios from the town, along with a 9-pound carronade under Lieutenant Charles Heywood.