<P> Cuffy was soon accepted by the rebels as their leader and declared himself Governor of Berbice . Doing so he named Akara as his deputy and tried to establish discipline over the troops . Akara was skilful in military discipline . They organized the farms in order to provide food supplies . </P> <P> Van Hoogenheim committed himself to retake the colony . Akara attacked the whites three times without permission from Cuffy, but they were driven back . Thus began a dispute among the two rebels . On 2 April 1763 Cuffy wrote to Van Hoogenheim saying that he did not want a war against the whites and proposed a partition of Berbice with the whites occupying the coastal areas and the blacks the interior . Van Hoogenheim delayed his decision waiting for support from neighboring colonies . Cuffy then ordered his forces to attack the whites on 13 May 1763, but in so doing had many losses . The defeat opened a division among the rebels and weakened their organization . Akara became the leader of a new faction opposed to Cuffy and led to a civil war among themselves . When Akara won, Cuffy killed himself . </P> <P> The anniversary of the Cuffy slave rebellion, 23 February, has been Republic Day in Guyana since 1970 . Cuffy is commemorated in the 1763 Monument in the Square of the Revolution in the capital Georgetown . </P>

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