I’m not a historian but my understanding is the same as Claire’s - it was the Longfellow poem that made Revere famous over Dawes or Prescott (or, indeed, Sybil Ludington or her father)
Until I played one of the Carmen games from 1995 with Lynn Thigpen, and I found a note left behind from one of her agents, I didn't realize that Carmen pays her people too Lol