Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Juan de Courten (tsohon) ko Juan Antonio Curten Massenet ko Juan Courten ko Juan Curten (10 ga Oktoba 1730 <unk> 21 ga Disamba 1796) ya fara aikin soja na Mutanen Espanya a cikin Yaƙin Nasara na Austriya yana da shekaru 14. Mahaifinsa ya kasance brigadier janar na injiniyoyi wanda ya mutu a 1745. Courten ya yi yaƙi a cikin Yakin Spain da Fotigal (1761 <unk> 1763), mamayewar Algiers a 1775
, da kuma Babban Siege na Gibraltar. Shi ne gwamnan karshe na Mutanen Espanya na Oran a 1792. A matsayinsa na Laftanar Janar, ya jagoranci wani rukunin sojoji a lokacin Yaƙin Pyrenees da Jamhuriyar Faransanci ta Farko a cikin ayyuka da yawa ciki har da Perpignan, Peyrestortes, Truillas, Boulou, da Black Mountain. An nada shi Kyaftin Janar na Aragon a shekara ta 1795.