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).
Legacy. 1  The town of Gates in Monroe County, New York is named in Gates' honor, as is Horatio Street in Manhattan's Greenwich Village, New York City, Gates Avenue, which runs from Ridgewood, Queens to around Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn , Gates Avenue in Jersey City and Gates County, North Carolina.