Arrival Arriving of General Sir Frederick Stanley Maude .

A new commander , Lieutenant General Sir Frederick Stanley Maude , was given Giving the job of restoring Recovering Britain 's military reputation .

General Maude spent Expend_resource the rest of 1916 rebuilding Recovering his army .

General Maude also obtained Getting a small force of armed river boats and river supply Supply ships .

The British commander , Frederick Stanley Maude , decided Deciding that , in order to avert these threats , he had to take control of the Samarrah railroad , running north of Baghdad .