Custer Monument (West Point) Custer Monument (West Point) Custer Monument is a monument at the United States Military Academy Cemetery, in honor of Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer who was killed along with his immediate command at the Battle of the Little Bighorn on 25 June 1876. Congress approved of a statue, to be made from 20 condemned bronze cannons, and for $10,000, of which $6,000 had been subscribed by citizens of New York. The monument was originally located near the academy's headquarters building near the site of present-day Taylor Hall along Thayer Road. Unveiled in 1879, the pedestal had a bronze statue of
Tony Custer the Youth Orchestra of the Americas in Washington DC., president of Peru′s Heritage-oriented Patronato Cultural del Perú, and is involved in numerous other institutions. Custer attended at the Roosevelt School (American School) in Lima moving on to high school at the Hotchkiss School in Connecticut and the Institut Le Rosey in Switzerland. Custer then received a bachelor's degree ("cum laude") in economics from Harvard College (1976) and an MBA from The Harvard Business School (1979). The Custer Group of companies is in its 93rd year in Peru, having expanded to five countries: Peru, Ecuador, Colombia and Costa Rica. The group