Juan de Courten (younger) (1765–1834) was a Spanish general who led an infantry division during the Peninsular War against the First French Empire.

[2] The army commander, Luis González Torres de Navarra, Marquess of Campoverde received word from a Spanish official in Barcelona that a French officer was ready to admit a force into one of the forts.

As the Spanish soldiers entered the ditch, the area was suddenly lit by torches and the French garrison opened fire.

[3] On 28 April, Marshal Louis Gabriel Suchet advanced from Lérida with the divisions of Jean Isidore Harispe and Bernard-Georges-François Frère.

The French reached Reus on 2 May and pushed back the Spanish outpost line around Tarragona the next day.

An Anglo-Spanish naval squadron under Edward Codrington consisting of two third-rates, two frigates, and gunboats stood offshore to provide logistic and gunfire support.

[8] As the disaster unfolded, Courten with 3,000 troops tried to implement the breakout plan and emerged from the eastern gate of the city.