Refugio Tánori (1835-1866) was a Mexican soldier and a member of the Opata People.
During the Reform War he fought on the side of the conservatives with the rank of captain, joining his brother Juan Tanori.
[1] He played a role in the siege of Ures, freed the Algerian prisoners held at San Pedro, Sinaloa, and defeated Jesús García Morales at Nacori Grande.
As the Empire began to falter in 1866, especially in the northern provinces, he headed towards Guaymas and sought to escape to Baja California, but the ship on which he had embarked with other imperialist officials and officers was overtaken by another ship commanded by liberal colonel Próspero Salazar Bustamante, and Tánori was apprehended.
He was shot by firing squad, along with the rest of his companions, at the orders of the liberal general Ángel Martinez, on September 25, 1866.