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).
Answer: A lot of people ask this question! Brooklyn is (and is in) Kings County. The borders of Kings County are the same as those of Brooklyn, New York. There is only ONE county in Brooklyn, New York: Kings County. It wasn't always that way, of course. When England finally took New Amsterdam over from the Dutch, they wrapped up all of the various towns of this part of western Long Island into one county: Kings County.