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, the borough, was once a city on its own until it narrowly voted to consolidate with New York City in 1898. The city evolved out of six distinct towns in Kings County, most developed during the Dutch colonial period: Brooklyn, Bushwick, New Utrecht, Gravesend, Flatbush, and Flatlands.his Brooklyn neighborhood south of Cypress Hills, National, Maimonides and Mount Hope Cemeteries, east of about Euclid Avenue and west of the Brooklyn-Queens line on Elderts Lane was originally called Union Place in honor of the nearby Union Course racetrack.