Within a few days, Churchill and his regiment had been back in London. But if they'd hoped to be stationed back at their old haunt of Whitehall, they'd been disappointed. William, still trying to sort out his newly acquired Kingdom, was posting his own Dutch Blue Guards at the royal palaces of Whitehall and St. James, and was happy to keep Churchill and the Black Torrent Guards at arm's length in the Tower – which needed defending in any case, as it housed the Royal Mint, and controlled the river with its guns, and was the chief arsenal of the Realm.