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).
Brooklyn (its name as borough of the city of New York; it is also Kings County, a county of the state of New York), the Borough of Homes and Churches, is one of the five Boroughs of New York. It used to be and still feels much like a city in its own right, with approximately 2.5 million inhabitants.