After the fiasco of the 1st MÃ©tis revolt in 1869, Louis Riel was banished from the country. for five years. 4 Outcast and exiled, Riel went to the United States and to Washington. where he found a distinguished French-Canadian, Major Mallot, Inspector of the Indian. Agency which he protected.
New York City is considered the county seat of these five counties: New York County (Manhattan), Kings County (Brooklyn), Bronx County (The Bronx), Richmond County (Staten Island), and Queens County (Queens).
Nassau County is directly east of New York City limits and therefore also within the New York metropolitan area. The county is one of the four counties that occupy Long Island, together with Suffolk County to its immediate east and Queens and Kings counties to the west, which correspond, respectively, to the New York City boroughs of Queens and Brooklyn.